Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.

Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.

The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale.

Liberals love to strike generous, humanitarian poses with other people's lives.

A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve.

I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies.

As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.

I'm a blues guy and I listen to blues all the time and blues is timeless.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Your mind is an automobile and words are your wheels.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.