All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Running is a great metaphor for life. You set a goal, and then you get to work. How well you do is a direct reflection of how hard you work. It's a mental game, too. There are setbacks along the way, but the true test of a runner is how you overcome and push past them.

I believe those that produce the least emissions in autos will also be those who have the greatest success worldwide.

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seed of today.

People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.

Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.

Businesses - we protect our businesses with the guns, our banks, our money. We protect politicians with guns.

Ohio chose the president in 2000 and 2004. The independent voters, the so-called swing voters, are the ones who make the difference.

Show business is - you're there by somebody's fluke. And as long as somebody likes you, and the show is going well, you're fine. I'd do anything. There's so much I want to do.

You can't keep bringing people in from other countries, finding them jobs when Americans need jobs first.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

The next time you feel really good just keep feeling that way for the rest of your life.

Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, 'Well, I have to do that.'

I think I'm chronically exhausted.

Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

The number of realists who are betting that both the 'economy gets healthy soon' and this government gets spending under control is a tiny group, indeed.

I love you so, But why I love you, I'll never know.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.

Gel doesn't work in my hair because it has a life of its own.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

I feel like I missed my era, because I remember the time when black people uplifted each other and looked for the positives. I feel sorry for the people who live their lives in the negative default setting because they filter out what's good, and that's no way to live.

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.

I begin to love this creature and to anticipate her birth as a fresh twist to a knot which I do not wish to untie