Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

This could be no mercy on my soul if someones destroy my heart.

I feel younger than eighteen but burdened as a eighty-year-old.

I don't have a car."His eyes sliced into mine. "I walked here, " I explained. "I'm on foot.""Angel, " he said in a way that sounded like he sincerely hoped I was joking.

The reality is that moments of impact, which are your new reality, change without notice, and you have to be alert to theirunderlying patterns of change.

It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

To be the world No. 1 has always been a dream for me.

It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

Customer relationships are defined by customers.

Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.