He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.

I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.

Remember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured.

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.

Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.

Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.

Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.

...and luckily I have enough in my head to balance what is wanting in my back.

Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.

I'm not perfect and I will not be one day.But I'm a human with mistakes and I do reconcilie with my mistakes

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.

Whoever coined the phrase, killing two birds with one stone, not only hated birds but also thought we needed to conserve stones.

A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the United States and elsewhere.

Content is king, but context is God.

Life is not too short... we just wait too long to begin it.

We by art unteach what Nature taught.

To revive a man is no slight thing.