Your aspirations are your possibilities.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be... because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!

The gilded spiralOf longings within.Our very own cathedralThat points persistently to heaven.

No one's trying to get with jugglers.

I think there's no harm, sometimes, to feel on the edge of things. If you're on the margins you can see a bigger picture. And I actually quite like standing at a peculiar angle to the universe.

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.

Naturally, things are more complicated - those groovy, pro-social effects of oxytocin apply to how we interact with in-group members.

It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be... Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight. I'm old.

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.