I put fear into the eyes of a member of the Mafia. I’m doing well, she thought, now keep him scared.

Me myself is enough to manage.

This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.

Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.

Failure is the chance to do it better next time.

Everything that happens in America happens in New York.

There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.

Goliath's mother, who said to Goliath, Stop running around with David! You're always coming home stoned! Never got a dinner!

Telling a writer to relax is like telling a man to relax while being prodded for a possible hernia.