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No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.
Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.
The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.
Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.
I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.
Is that all?" she whispered. Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is.
I can't tell the difference," I said. "Between not fighting and giving up.
There is no better taste than this: someone else’s laughter in your mouth.
Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.
Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.
Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.
Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.
Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!
People have defining moments, i suppose, especially when they're children.
When he moves, a streetlight stabs him, and the words flow out like blood.
The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.
... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.
I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.
It's a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.
Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things.
Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.
I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.
Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.
You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!
A good musician should say: We can live without air but not without music!
Science is our only hope to be the 'Holy Rope' tying man to the existence.
A child can be very happy with very simple things; adult must do the same!
Be silent when you are criticised so that you can hear the critiques well!
Beating drums while doing a kindness to somone is a very ugly show of ego!
Dog becomes a good friend with man whether the man himself is good or not!
If you want to shine over the world, first let the wisdom shines over you!
Never wish the death of someone or you will lose your goodness inside you!
Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!
Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown!
Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys!
Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!
In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience!
I’m frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.
No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.
Driveway basketball, playing against the boys, watching Magic and Michael.
To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.