Go forward with joyful confidence.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

The core of your true self is never lost. Let go of all the pretending and the becoming you've done just to belong.Curl up with your rawness and come home. You don't have to find yourself

Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it.

I grouped my fellow employees into three categories: the plebes, the damned, and the demons.

The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect.

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.

Anyway, culture and nation are partners, inextricable from each other. National culture and nation, they are reciprocities.

Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them.

When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.