A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

I write these words to touch you, My love, In places my hands can only dream of.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.

He made me mess the song up when I looked at him... We can show the kids the tape and say, "Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other."

I love my brother, and I respect his service, i haven't been in Washington ... ever. I'm not part of Washington.

It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.

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I took care of my body. Your body is your business in the NFL.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.