To sneer at his imperfect attempt was very bad breeding.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

She burned too bright for this world.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.

I've been running like this since I was seven.

Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness.

The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!

Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

I'm a combination of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn and Ralph Stanley.

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.

I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.