The expected always happens

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

(Man, I wish life had emoticons, you know? So that when your dad pisses you off you could like click a mental button or something and just show him one of those rolleyes. That would rock) Anyway.

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.

Just having someone make you laugh so hard that it hurts is so healing to me.

Her mother was a cultivated woman - she was born in a greenhouse

Love goes toward love.