No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

Only is a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above

A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.

I think people need more to do in their life if my hair pisses them off.

Some of the players are known as scorers or assists. I guess what I am known as being is an ironwoman.

The booing and the drama help make the Olympics interesting, but at what cost? When will people finally get tired of it and start watching the X-Games or competitive tire rolling instead?

Dad," I said hesitantly, "I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

A hunger for beauty is at its heart a hunger for God.

Success in life is not how well we execute Plan A; it's how smoothly we cope with Plan B.