Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Every thought you cultivate is a brushstroke on the canvas of your life. Your life then, is an outer picture of your inner thoughts.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

[Donald Trump] gets a 19 percent higher approval rating than [Hillary Clinton] does ,among military members.

It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again.

There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.

If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.

Malcolm X felt that if he could make a public - a prominent public statement to show his fidelity to the Honorable Elijah Mohammad that that might win him back in the good graces of the organization.

We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.

It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.