...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I understand and I believe you.

Never say you are five feet nine whenyou are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered.Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turnout that there is a God.

Why talk about something you can't do anything about?

I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn't help envying him that a little, which was perfectly normal. There was no harm in envying even your best friend a little

pain is pondering about past and wishing to relive those moments even after knowing it's impossible.

The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?

One un-vents something; one unearths it; one digs it up; one runs it down in whatever recesses of the eternal consciousness it has gone to ground.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

I used to have a pony but I outgrew it and I do dream that one day I will live in the country and have lots of horses and be like a proper English lady who goes hunting and everything.

The only woman a wife should ever be jealous of is her husband's mom.

Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.

Troubles never come singly.

You're a star -- and so am I. I'm a genius -- and so are you. Your success encourages my brilliance, and my charisma enhances your power. Your victory doesn't require my defeat, and vice versa.