To be rude is as good as being clever.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

Discover your destiny.

Silent words are heard through eyes.

If you do not get the chills when you set your goal you're not setting big enough goals.

It’s herding kittens. If kittens had a lot of guns and an overdose of neo-Libertarian property theory.

Basketball is a pretty simple game. What wins is consistency and competitiveness.

When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death.

When you have that last piece of the jigsaw, everything will, I hope, be clear..." -Albus Dumbledore

People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.

I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.