A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Happiness is not a condition but a mindset.

Red lights, green lights, stop and go jive. Headlines, deadlines, jamming your mind.

There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."

If you really want love, ask for it. Those who are willing to ask are often the ones who receive.

I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.

Mobile will probably disrupt much of what we know of web 2.0.

I find that the things that really, you know, get us fired up, tend to be things that, for example, things that you talk about tonight, what we see in the news.

...you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy

I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.

THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.