The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.