It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

when you build your life on a foundation of your authentic truth ~ you are fulfilled with joy and enduring peace, you feel you, the person you are meant to be

Good friends laugh at you, laugh with you, but never laugh behind your back.

The man with the most guns survives the zombie apocalypse, but the man with the most books, locks the door and forgets it ever happened.

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

When one door opens, so does another one.

Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?

If wine is fruit, then vodka must be a vegetable.

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

Let's go invent tomorrow...