How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

In the end, it’s all a question of balance.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Time had changed the magical to mundane

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

Even though God has given the gift of time to all men equally, it is what each man does with this equal gift of time that determines whether or not he will be great.

Dill was in hearty agreement with this plan of action. Dill was becoming something of a trail anyways, following Jem about... He only grew closer to Jem. (Lee 55)

If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.

When you think about such fine actors as Maggie Smith or Michael Gambon, they do all mediums. I think it would be quite sad and a bit dull just to have to stick to one. I like all of them.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we’ve changed this country before.

Life is short. I'm here to make music, I'm not here to sit on a beach. That sounds really boring to me.

the horse will always do right if he understands. This is very remarkable. It is true neither of human beings nor of dogs.

Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.

The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.