how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Actions lie louder than words.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Maybe with a little more danger ― but there's more to life than just trying to exist.

I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

Uninvited criticism is insult.

I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring.

Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.