Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action.

Every man through fear mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice as well as of virtue to inspire him.

In two words, " said Alan quietly, "there is nothing I love half as much as you.

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us yes but they haven't been true to themselves.

One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. I'm just myself, I stick by my guns and I treat people the way I think they should be treated, regardless of their status. And I just have a laugh.

If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.

Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed to thinking of it as unique and as ultimate.

As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.

I still get nervous on dates. I'll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can't breathe.

I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not to believe that the Holocaust occurred.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.