It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If we hold anything against anyone, we will suffer ourselves.

When you read mistakes, learn from it!

Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred one never worried about the minor ones.

Acting is pretty much my whole life.

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

What can the will do when the heart commands?

What touches our hearts and impresses us deeper is sacrifice and humility, when we see someone accept the higher principle of cooperation, putting aside his/her own achievements.