“A good lover? One percent talent and ninety nine percent hard work.”

“No one plows the field just by thinking about it.”

“Nothing is expensive when you promise.”

“Hide in the mirror. No one will look for you there.”

“When you are a child at home alone, youre afraid someone might come; when you are old and at home alone, youre afraid no one will come.”

“Modesty is fear.”

“Our souls are always looking for love, and hearts wait to treasure it.”

“His gut was stitched up good and tight, but that didnt prevent it from flopping. He wiped his damp palms on the legs of his jeans and stood up shakily, leaning heavily on his cane.He called himself...”

“Never fall in love?""Always," said the count. "I am always in love.”

“To have luck and fail to act on it is tantamount to not having luck at all. In fact, it was worse. Barnes thought back to his self-help manuals. They all proclaimed with compelling force the necess...”

“If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.”

“Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.”

“As some people turned to religion for comfort, so, Highsmith wrote in her notebook in September 1970, she took refuge in her belief that she was making progress as a writer. But she realised that b...”

“Its important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your min...”

“Reason, Observation and Experience the Holy Trinity of Science have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This...”