The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

When we stand, we do so not only for ourselves, but also for countless others who have similar stories but may never have an opportunity to be witnessed.

Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

You have to go through ups and downs. Mistakes turn into lessons.

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.

Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you. I'ma let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other

Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.

I always feel pressure. What I don't have is fear. But pressure, there always is, and whoever says otherwise is lying.