The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
Flannery O'Connor
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Fran Lebowitz
A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.
Frances O'Roark Dowell
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon