The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you...

A faithful friend is a strong defense;<br /> And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you want everyone here to think you're the kind of guy who just sits...

I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair.

We aim to please Miss Steele

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit

By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.

Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like...

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance

I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of...

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women