Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.