[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life., 8 September 1935)

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or

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To them, eternal life beginsAnd God Himself shall wipe away all tears.

Never settle... go after your dreams aggressively. Ignore the doubters, step over them. Stay focus on your prize.

Attachment leads to suffering.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

Somehow when you see a politician kiss a baby, shake a hand -- kiss anything -- it is tainted.

Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.

Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn, ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.

My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year.

I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.

Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.