It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

That which yields is not always weak.

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.

Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade

A little truth seasons a lie like salt.

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers

This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you

The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.

… mess is the material from which life and creativity are built …

[He] was a brilliant man. People tend to become wary of individuals like him because their brilliance reminds them of their own mediocrity. Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes.

Lust likes to rush, while love hates to wait.

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.

It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.

I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much.

Sherrod Brown and President Obama have lost the faith of Jewish Democrats.

He licked his bowl and he looked at me, and then he did the wild thing on my leg.