The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Men were foolish and were made only so that they should die, while mountains and rivers went on for ever and did not notice the passing of time.

Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.

Adam ate the apple and our teeth still ache.

God's chief gift to those who seek him is Himself.

I do have a ridiculously high hedonic set-point

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.

Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.

I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.

Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.