The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I'm not sure I have in any of the others.
One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.
Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.
The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected.
Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the streets competing with the cars and buses and lorries because it is the poor man's mode of transport.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.
When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.
Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once.
Hal yang paling mematikan dari yang mematikan: Cinta akan tetap membunuhmu, tak peduli apakah kau memilikinya atau tidak.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.
Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.
I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
