Sometimes we may trying to correct a mistake by another mistake so that we should be wise

well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

What melody will our rivers remember if songbirds forget how to sing?

Cultivate the habit of defining, refining, redefining and redeeming your opportunities. Failure is a temporal event, not a permanent trademark.

There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed.

Beat me, hurt me, fight me and I’ll bounce back, but be nice to me? I folded quicker than a banker in a high-stakes poker game.

Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.

Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about [Donald] Trump.

How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.

There is not economy in getting cheap service or equipment. Buy the best and cry only once.

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.