Gratitude weighs heavy on us only when we no longer feel it.

We often make people pay dearly for what we think we give them.

The best way to find out if a man has done something is to advise him to do it. He will not be able to resist boasting that he has done it without being advised.

Prejudices are the refuge of those who cannot think for themselves.

You should only confide your secrets to someone who has not tried to guess them.

Doubt is a necessity of the mind, faith of the heart.

To be brave one short instant is no easy matter it is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

Doubt is a necessity of the mind faith of the heart.

Parents are friends that life gives us friends are parents that the heart chooses.

It is unfair to hold people responsible for our illusions of them.

Of all feats of skill the most difficult is that of being honest.

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

Sometimes our emotions rule us. How we handle the consequences . . . defines us.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

Passion is what drives me forward. Passion is what makes me go to bed at 2am and wake up at 6am.

Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

People who actually have money don't want to talk about it. They want to talk about everything else.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

I smile and think; This is my job, this is what I do for a living, and its what I’ve always wanted

The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."