Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

Make every person feel special. Let them feel loved.

We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots.

I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.

If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.

remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb, blind but in certain ecstasy, for theirs is the hunger for Paradise.

The Fox News anchors are lovely. They have an incredible combination of brains and beauty. And I think that's one of the reasons people love watching them and listening to them.

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.

We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.