I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises".

But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

I am entirely capable." "Of what, waddling up to someone and ruthlessly bumping into them?

Successful people are often times highly motivated people.

Actually nobody can be perfect in cricket. Everybody makes mistakes. It is important to learn from your mistakes and correct them.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.