From listening comes wisdom and from speaking repentance.

What can't be cured must be endured.

There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

A fence should be horse high hog tight and bull strong.

Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent.

If you fail to plan you plan to fail.

Today's sales should be better than yesterday's - and worse than tomorrow's.

There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar.

He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much.

They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.

Danger and delight grow on one stalk .

A thought comes into her head: that lately she doesn't ask herself what is possible, but rather what possibilities remain.

That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness.

New polls show that Obama is now pulling away from Mitt Romney. And, of course, what could be more natural than to see Mitt Romney and pull away?

To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do, to achieve, to learn, and to change.

We can't do this without you," I managed at last. "Everyone talks about my powers, but you're the badass here.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.