The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

We strive toward the middle, and we run from ourselves.

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)

Gin and whisky cost so much more. Oblivion and courage could no longer be purchased for the price of an old song.

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country.

He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!