Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

It's a misconception that people over 65 do not use computers. They love them they are always consulting Dr Google.

The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

Stop making a big deal out of the little things Cause I got big deals and I got little things

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.

Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world - particularly the Third World - since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media.

I think Senator Rubio is a very talented young man. But you can well imagine that I am kind of partial to governors.