To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

A successful career has been full of blunders.

You cannot win without sacrifice.

A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

Jim slept deeply, lulled by the rhythmic rumble of the purring Pye.

I've known Roger Ailes for 15 years, and I have been treated with the utmost professionalism and respect.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.

Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.

When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own performance and for the other actors.

There's no thrill like throwing a touchdown pass.

Before you look to blame another, look within yourself, for at some point you have not listened to your own instincts.

but I know you're the brightest shooting star in the sky - Astrid