Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

A successful career has been full of blunders.

You cannot win without sacrifice.

A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

I use quite a bit in my kitchen, but the one thing that's an absolute must would have to be my high-speed blender.

When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.

If we're unified, there's nothing we cannot do.

If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.

If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors. Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age.