A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Nothing is our except time.

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

Poetry is more than just art, it’s like super glue to a broken heart. It can also be a light when your life seems a little dark.

Where do you go when you die twice-lest a thousand deaths?

If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

Too much of nothing, it just makes a fellow mean.

I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

Every person has their own unique circumstances to overcome, but every single person has the opportunity to achieve anything - and change everything.

And Brooke Elliott is a great actress.