You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Flow, I must remind you here is a being-systemic process. Depression is a being-systemic deregulation that affects the neurophysiological.

Three golden keys that unlock the door to excellence are determination, hard work and practice.

I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face.

Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

She's cool in bed, as she ought to be, cuz Ethyl's dead.

A successful executive is one that solves bigger problems than he/she creates.

Why can't a heterosexual guy tell a heterosexual guy / That he thinks his booty is fly?

Democracy means free television, not good television, but free.

First of all, I'm no better than the next person.