Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare!

For there 's nae luck about the house, There 's nae luck at a'; There 's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman 's awa'.

His very foot has music in 't As he comes up the stairs.

The present moment is our ain, The neist we never saw!

Shut up!" Eve yelled from somewhere upstairs. "Jackass!""You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome,

If you are too afraid of losing something, it means you didn’t care enough for it in the first place.

Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.

Not merely what we do, but what we try to do and why, are the true interpreters of what we are.

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

I believe a writer is an eye, a pervasive eye that sees the reality that surrounds us, as well as the impression it makes on our souls. It reacts — or does not react — by putting it on paper.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.

Healthy thinking is a habit, just like neurotic thinking is a habit.