The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.
I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
Believe in miracles but don't depend on them.
The end is here, and you don't want be here. You are the best in the world at something, and you know you are not going to be that great at anything else.
I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?
Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.