A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

This is the end of the day, but soon there will be a new day.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

the best of" show was completely gone and we were in big trouble, except we didn't really care.

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

I cry a lot. I'll cry because I see a person walking down the street looking lonely.

Happiness is in the doing not in getting what you want.

I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem.

Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.

From the outside, I seem happy a lot. But, I'm human and it's not possible to always be happy.

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.

Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.