Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.
There are a lot of bars and shoe stores in my early books.
Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.
June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.
Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.
I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.
I am happy that I'm a better novelist than a screenwriter.
I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people.
Nothing is more heart-breaking than the demise of decency.
The hard part is implementing the decision, not making it.
Just do what's right for the customer, and you'll be okay.
I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.
No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.
Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy?
Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.
From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.
More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
Niceness is the psychological armor of the people-pleaser.
Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.
The man who walks with God always gets to his destination.
Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.
The first, the middle and the last thing to do is to pray.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.
Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.
The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.
You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.
What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?
The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.
Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.
The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.
What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?
There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.
It is good even to be a fisherman in summer and in winter.
The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.
A committee of three gets things done if two dont show up.