Common sense is not so common.
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
The future ain't what it used to be.
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Genius is sorrow's child.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Freedom is from within.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
