Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

When a mortal man breaks a people, it is always blamed on the gods.

With sticky thinking you can become unstuck!

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.

I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.

As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a mistake.

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself.