people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Be loving to find the love.

I can't stop obstacles from occurring, but neither can they dare to interrupt my peace of mind or stop me from moving forward.

Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.

I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror writer, though most of the time the supernatural never actually appears on stage.

You can control your attitude. Set it each morning.

Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

Twitter is my happy place. I am not there to overthink 140 characters.

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.