It is not the situation. It is your reaction to the situation.

Melville to Hawthorne: "In your stories, you seem to understand that the dramatic moments come not when a character must choose between right and wrong buy when he must choose between two wrongs.

I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.

Men die but an idea does not.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.

They're saying President Obama doesn't have any friends. The problem is that he can't get Congress to approve one.

Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery.

If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.

Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.