Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.
Half talent is no talent.
As the interest of man, so his God; as his God, so he.
Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.
You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.
And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
That was the worst part about losing someone-finding a place to store all the thoughts and feelings you'd otherwise share with them.
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small. . . my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are.
I always wanted an older brother. That was my thing. My mom would be like, "What do you want for your birthday?" I'd be like, "I want an older brother. "