Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.