Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.

The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

Just because you don’t like peanut butter doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t like . . . peanuts.

You can love something without loving everything about it. You don't have to feel embarrassed about not being proud. That applies to hockey, but it also applies to friends.

What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices.

The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.

The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell apart.

Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.

Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town.

She’s fifteen, above the age of consent, and he’s seventeen, but he’s still “the boy” in every conversation. She’s “the young woman”.Words are not small things.

Why have we built warships to bring home peace?

Music, literature with poetry makes a perfect paradise.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior.

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!

GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets.

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.

God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all.

I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want to return to prison.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.