The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth.

The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.

In how many lives there lurks a hidden romance or a hidden terror.

the night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.

There is compensation in all things.

The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

It’s getting more difficult to be wise, ” he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. “I think that’s how it’ssupposed to be.

There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.

I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?

Your wallet will be stolen, you'll get fat, slip on the bathroom tiles of a foreign hotel and crack your hip.

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.

Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.