Existence was never originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me among the rest.

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me.

Our power of being happy lies a good deal in ourselves, I believe.

Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently.

. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.

In her past were sweet passages, in her future rosy hopes.

He did not yet known how many commenced lefe-romances are doomed never to get beyond the first, or at most the second chapter.

I will bestir myself, ' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.

Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition.

His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows.

One part of my consciousness serves only one realm.

I hope that the next time you go to a concert, the band doesn't play the song you wanna hear! And instead, they just play songs off their new album!

Who's gonna give me a TV show? I didn't work for an impeached, disbarred President who was held in contempt by a federal judge. That's what they look for in objective reporters.

When a person says only what others love to hear, he is largely liked; but if he loves to say what he likes only, then others hardly hear him.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

Lack of sleep is only bad if you have to drive, or think, or talk, or move.

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.

No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.

Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.