I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.

Losing your job is a great blessing in disguise

My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine.

Forgive me for allowing myself to be hurt by you so easily.

I believe Facebook is going all the way. They're going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in the world. It will be a platform everyone goes on the Internet through.

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

O Allah! Pardon my sins. Yes, I come.

I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.

Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.