The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.

People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.

You shall find true happiness once you have learnt to accept your loneliness.

There's no such thing as a limit on being the best. You can always go for more. That's what it means to be human. No... That's what it means to be me. - Claire Stanfield

There are things I can't force. I must adjust.

Insecurity is a waste of time.

How about those Olympics, ladies and gentlemen. Didn't London look like the place to be? New York City was in the running for this Olympics. But here's what happened. We got outbribed.

Death may indeed be final but the love we share while living is eternal

If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity

A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.