I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.
Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.
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.
Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.
You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear - and only one. This one visualization will clarify every word choice you make.
Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.
Life in this world is an attempt to see God.