Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.
Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.
I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable.
When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself
Do your best, and your best will be growing better.
I never even dreamed of being a chef, and that's fundamental.
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
Lesson no. 1: Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.
Lesson no. 3: Many people see happiness only in their future.
The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.
The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces.
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
