They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Don't lie to the girl of your life for the hoe of the night

A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.

I sorrow that all fair things must decay.

So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.

Alexi Giannoulias' top aide was a longtime BP lobbyist.

When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.

I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.