Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.

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.

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

Passion can’t sustain itselfforever.

In the darkness, she listened to the silence. She wallowed in the beautiful nothing it made.

I won't eat anything green.

Family dinner. Seven-thirty sharp. Tie optional. Straight-jacker required.

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.

The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.