What is to give light must endure burning.
In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
Comedy is acting out optimism.
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
