The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

Human improvement is from within outward.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Writing the next lines and words of your life is something only you can do. We write our own stories.

Love everybody and tell the truth.

Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.

I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.

If you look at any movement Hip Hop would be the most influential in the last maybe 15, 20 years.

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

Now I just feel like I'm more open to life. I have two children.

So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.