Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
I think you owe it to your kids to teach them how to cook - you know, self-survival.
You don't know what love is until you meet your child.
The Thames is liquid history.
A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.
I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.
Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.
My favorite place to read is next to the pond in my backyard.
That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.
Fighting Raphael Assunaco isn't that exciting to me. I have nothing against him; he's a good guy and a good fighter.
New-born horses can walk shortly after birth.
One is never so rich as when one removes (from one house to another).
Boy, those French they have a different word for everything!
No one's going to feel sorry for me because I've been so blessed.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
Silence was never written down.
He that is warm thinks all so.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
