Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.

I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

In my belief, a harvest is also a legacy, for very often what you reap is, in the way of small miracles, more than you consciously know you have sown.

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be.

Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.

...but there was never enough time to read. The great irony of working in a library.

Don't worry, keep at it, you will soon shock the world

After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work

Both the liberal and the conservative are in agreement: it is all very well to let the people alone, but only if they do what you want them to do.

I'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection...I will always be learning.

The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's.

Editorials are editorials. They a supposed to have an opinion, even a very strong one.

Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

Let us leave tomorrow's trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.

Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?