To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free.

In every circumstance, call out to Jesus Christ.

Business is a basketball game. The more tricks you know, the more points you score.

Por que en las epocas oscurasse escribe con tinta invisible?Why in the darkest agesdo they write with invisible ink?

Create and nurture a mindset that works for you rather than against you.

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.

I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It's always nice when four women pull you into spandex when you're in jockey shorts. Yeah.