Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

Some people are so talented that they have the millions that they are chasing for within, blinded by the chase.

Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.

The Northeast is being hit with a major snowstorm. Forecasters said they've haven't seen a whiteout like this since last week's Oscar nominations.

I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?

Wow, you're awesome and The universe loves a winner, so the universe must really love you!

Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.

Since they came in with the selfie, it's the worst thing. You hardly ever get asked for autographs any more. It's always selfies.

If you can't read the scoreboard. You don't know the score. If you don't know the score, you can't tell the winners from the losers.