“It is not everyone,” said Elinor, “who has your passion for dead leaves.”

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

It is a sad state of affairs in the USA that for the sick and the poor that jail offers better benefits than the freedom of no healthcare, bills that cannot be paid and starvation.

It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force.

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.

It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

There is apparently an epidemic of tinnitus in younger people. Tinnitus is ringing in the ears and it can be disabling. Tinnitus is associated with cellphone use.

People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.

Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.

If journalism is the first draft of history, then the Internet simply has provided a new means for delivering that draft far and wide very quickly.