The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

God is one and there is but one God — all else is but the way the ignorant seek to put Gods into a form they can understand...

Be willing to take a stand for the things you believe in, because no one else will stand there for you.

Some blind faithfully

Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.

I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.

Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.