Often, on the brink of finding the recipe for immortality, I get distracted by the frightful presence of death.

When you say ugly you mean your beauty is not now in style.

Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain.

Keep your thoughts right for as you think so are you. Therefore think only those things that will make the world better and you unashamed.

The hand can be quicker than the eye, and the mouth can be quicker than the brain.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.

If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

You can never be happy when you're constantly comparing yourself to others. Keep your eyes ahead.

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.