But everything of value about me is in my books.
Learn to be pleased with everything. . . because it could always be worse, but isn't!
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.
A healer of others, himself diseased.
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. Bambi gave me nightmares.
If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.
As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.
Badly gotten, badly spent. [Lat. , Male partum, male disperit. ]