[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.