My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.

The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.

People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.

You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to mention love.

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

Silence is more musical than any song.

Weight justly and sell dearely.

What are you going to do if it's the end of the world? You better go out having fun instead of stressing about it.

Some people are scared to tell the truth, but I'm going to tell you the Good, the bad, the ugly," it's like, "Let's go there. Let's talk about it."

We have been so impressed with the Pocket Radar that it has become the only radar gun we use for coaching and scouting.

Easy writing's curst hard reading.

What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.

Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.