Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

Fate was tricky like that. It consumed us when we thought we were free, and it freed us when we thought we were captured.

That girl was a goddess and once a guy got hooked on her it was damn hard weaning off. - Drake

I mean by this Sacrament an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder.

I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.

The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her woodland home.

The people who put you down don't have to stop you from chasing your dreams. Stand up, and prove them wrong.

Where you live in the United States shouldn't determine how long and how healthy you live - but it does, far more than it should.