She loved our dad in the inexplicable way that young women sometimes idolize men who greet their affection with casual indifference.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

When I was young I used to have this nightmare about dying. I used to lie awake at night screaming. All my schoolfriends went to heaven or hell, and I was sent to Southend.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

That kid ain't got no bills to pay, he ain't got no kids; When you're that young to him it's only all about the sport he's playing. You don't have to worry about nuthin' else!

My mom did a good job exposing me to different types of music.

I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.

I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.

There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.