I didn’t say anything

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.

I was so happy when I found out I had been drafted by the Yankees. Growing up in Taiwan, I had heard so much about the Yankees but had never even seen them on TV.

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics.

Some people look at a glass and see it as half-full. Others look at a glass and call it a dragon.

Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be good for nothing atall, and I assure you, you shall have nothing at all.

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

I don't have a microwave oven, but I do have a clock that occasionally cooks stuff.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.