We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.

One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong

When you are in love- everything is romantic

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

I can always forgive where I understand.

You cannot believe everything you hear

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

The most satisfying of languages, Latin.

Have a place for everything and have everything in its place.

You steal the limelight, you steal the market share

The only time you truly make a mistake is when you commit a "mis-take," that is, you "miss-taking" the opportunity to learn a valuable lesson from your seemingly malfunctional experience.

Well I took her over to a soda fountain over on Bo's She had an Ice Cream Sundae and a hot cup of Jo She leaned way back just to straighten up her hose Well the ice cream melted and the coffee froze.

Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.

To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty, despicable, and desperate.