Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.

He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there

Fear is the highest fence.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

When it comes to cyber conflicts between, say, America and China or even a Middle Eastern nation, an African nation, a Latin American nation, a European nation, we have more to lose.

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

I looked into Mr. Putin's eyes, and I saw three letters, a "K," a "G," and a "B."

Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs.

You're turned in to the biggest balls of them all, DJ Suk T Nutts.

It was just the best thing in my life, to come to Minnesota.