Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

Wedlock is a padlock.

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

Good words cool more than cold water.

Where love fails we espy all faults.

There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weightOf cathedral tunes.

In a determined reversal of her inherent nature, Kochu Maria now, as a policy, hardly ever believed anything that anybody said.

When I asked for help, no one is there except me. "Helping yourself is a great help you ever get it from anyone".

The desire to be connected with the cosmos reflects a profound reality, but we are connected; not in the trivial ways that astrology promises, but in the deepest ways.

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

Most of us entered journalism and joined "news organizations" because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice.

Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.

My favorite dish is cleaning out the fridge on Sunday night and improvising a great medley.

Oftentimes what happens actually is people say to me, 'I didn't know if it was you or not, and then I heard you laugh, and then obviously I could tell it was you.'