I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

We are the wreck of what we have been, and the place of our own future demise.

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.

There are some guys you definitely would not want dating your sister - especially hockey players.

After Auschwitz, I no longer cry at funerals.

Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence.

Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it

Tech is not looking for inclusion per se, but they're looking for assimilation. They're looking for Blacks and Latinos and women, but they are looking for these groups as versions of themselves.

holding tight, denying the fact that eventually we all had to let go.

I'm very direct. It's part of my personality. I've actually grown into that.

The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.