Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes...
When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best—which will often be the tribe, the totem, or the taboo.
Being our best involves walking away from every situation with less than what we had when we encountered it because we left something behind in the exchange.
Sometimes the best goal you can set is just to get out of bed every day. If you can succeed at this, then other things become possible.
The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.
The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.
when i run i run fast when i read time whirls past whatever you do today do it in the best possible way
The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.
I am grieved for my children—and boy’s in particular—that this modern age is emasculating men under the guise of “the best interest of the children”.
I don't agree that when you love, you are blind or fool. You just get wiser and see clearer what is best and of worth.
Let your actions be for a purpose and let them be taken with passion. Develop the habit of making the best use of your chances and your desires will come to pass!
Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.
He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
In a brain scan, relational pain—that caused by isolation during punishment—can look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child?
If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.
As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.
