To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

You’ve got sadness in you, I’ve got sadness in me – and my works of art are places where the two sadnesses can meet, and therefore both of us need to feel less sad.

Either way, the view stabbed its way into his chest, as if it were trying to finish him off before he even landed.

There are lots of fish in the sea. Some are sharks, some are angels, and some are bottom feeders.

We need to bring Android and Chrome to every screen that matters for users, which is why we focused on phone, wearables, car, television, laptops, and even your workplace.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

Definitely. The way I look is a reflection of who I am. That's how my music is too.

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.

Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.