unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.

Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.

The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

With the game on the line. I want the ball in my hands.

It's not that I'm afraid to die, but I'm terribly, terribly afraid not to live.

I'd mortgage any house for art.

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule.

Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.