If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

This is the end of the day, but soon there will be a new day.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."

Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum

"Wait'll next year!" is the favorite cry of baseball fans football fans hockey fans and gardeners.

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

You can live in the same city your entire life and still be completely a foreigner when you step out, in your old age, onto the street.

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.