It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

Whatever the needs of the public are, the government responds to those needs by getting larger.

A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.

Rebuilding our communities where the police and citizens all see themselves as being on the same side will require contributions from all of us.

I'm a horrible control freak. It's awful! I'm nice, but if someone is folding some sheets while I am playing the guitar, I keep one eye on the way that they are folding the sheets.

I'm kind of a control freak. But there are others like me.

Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.

What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.

I'm really easy to get along with once you see it my way.

Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.