Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more.

Reading as an adult, for pleasure, is infinitely better than reading the stuff assigned to you back in school. You get to choose what you want to read.

Happiness doesn't just happen. I'm convinced that for the most part, those who focus their minds on it, obtain it.

Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you fruit tomorrow.

Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

Honesty is the foundation for trust; you can't have one without the other.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.

On the whole I prefer cats to women because cats seldom if ever use the word 'relationship'.

With total discipline we can solve all problems.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.