One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

It's amazing how much information we share in social media, then we wonder why people steal our identity.

The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles.

These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.

The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together.

President Abbas and myself, we are the ones who signed the Oslo agreement, so we really know each other, not just theoretically.

And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.