How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

The satisfaction? The joy? That comes from solving problems and making things.

Need is what tears people apart. When you want someone, you never really need them. But as soon as you start to need someone, they no longer want you.

What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

It's a wonder our country doesn't implode.

I really do not think about 'Oh, right now I have to defend those points and this title.' I just really want to enjoy playing on the court, in front of the fans.

If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.

I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.