“She laughed at the stars, frightened but free, her terror as sharp as pain and as sweet as a ripe October apple”

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.

the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered.

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

“I must study Politics and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematics and Philosophy.”