Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.

We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.

Don't rush to design your face to look beautiful, attractive and charming. Rather, be quicker to decorate your mind to appear as goal-oriented, passion-embedded and action-driven.

Vision attained through mindful thinking, imagination and purpose reveals both the forest and the trees – as well as a path forward.

In a true tragedy both parties must be right.

It's funny how your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them no matter what facts develop later on.

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.

Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

I wasnt a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.

But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest Innocence away

Personality is the gland of creativity.