The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead.

With my wife Camille's help, I took to social networking. I'm working with the computers.

I didn’t know what was more disturbing—the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the world’s premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door.

In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

If it's a flash it's been an awfully long flash. I've been around for 20 years in one of the largest media and political markets in the country, so I'd call it more of a slow burn.

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.

Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.