I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Actions lie louder than words.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.

Her tears still lay, unattended, on my bosom...I wouldn't wipe them, for she might stop paying me visits.

Once you realize that human actions affect every bit of earth and sky, you realize that the environment isn't just what surrounds us - it's all one whole.

I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.

Today's customer journey is an iterative, complex, pinball of touchpoints.

No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

You learn who your friends are when the sh-t hits the fan.

If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.