When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

Young Dandelion On a hedge-side Said young Dandelion Who'll be my bride? Said young Dandelion With a sweet air, I have my eye on Miss Daisy fair.

All men are great for they convey something through their deeds and while most of them do from their misdeeds!

Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.

For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.

What do you do to your hair?" "Dust, hair gel, and a little gun oil." "Ever thought of patenting the recipe?" "No.

Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality and plot. I just couldn't stomach it.

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.

I've traveled more this year than any other living human being, and if I'd traveled any more I wouldn't be living.