. . . when the horror of his grief was new to him, and every object in life, however trifling or however important, seem saturated with his one great sorrow.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

Do you think I will suffer myself to be baffled?

. . . and he knew that our dreams are none the less terrible to lose, because they have never been the realities for which we have mistaken them.

Misery, thy name is Mudslide

God was just. She held on to that knowledge and the hope that the day of justice would eventually arrive.

After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot – how could he find perfection in such an average day?Then I realized that was the whole point.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average.

So few people know what they're capable of.

As long as we're fit, we just have so much to give on the court.