I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Pain is an illusion, an illusion that really really hurts!

Take full account of the excellencies which you possess and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

Those North Korean hackers are at it again. Earlier today they leaked Santa's naughty list.

Four: If you try to force yourself into my head, I will force myself into your pants.

I would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.

If you eat one less candy bar or donut a day, you're doing your body some good.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Pere Noel. Babbo Natale. Pelznickel. Topo Gigio