Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

The secret code of success is patience, a virtue that can not be replaced. It takes time to build great dreams.

There is no art without artist, try to paint your future under God's control.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

The earth has its music for those who will listen.

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.

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I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.

I don't really try to get involved politically by giving money to politicians or by saying I'm a Democrat or Republican. Right now, I just view myself as an American.

To have a strong community of people who believe in your potential can make all the difference in the world. So many people have invested in me and I want to do the same for Chicago’s teens.

Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.