For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?

The thing American people fear about corporations is that they might achieve too much power. We have an antipathy to power even as we admire it.

Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.

There was a little girlWho had a little curlRight in the middle of her forehead.When she was good, she was very, very good.And when she was “bad”, Her Papa loved her anyway.

My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy

Mental wounds not healing, who and what's to blame. I'm going off the rails on a crazy train.

Personally, I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones.

People are really hesitant about expressing that they don't know something - but what's the big deal? I'm not ashamed about that at all.