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.

Hope is a believe in God.

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

I'm officially done trying. If you want me in your life, you can come find me. Until then, continue treating me like I dont exist.

I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.

I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike.

I have worked on PCs and on Macs and, while I have my preferences, I don't find it crippling to work on one rather than the other.

It would be a very serious mistake for the U.K. to vote to leave the European Union, and I think it would be democratically indefensible for Scotland, if we had voted to stay in, to face the prospect of being taken out.

It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.

It should be about this team, and it should be about these guys. It should be about our relationship. It shouldn't be about records.

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it.

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.

It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't even understand the rules, which doesn't stop us from scoring everyone, every run, every skate, every race.

I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers.

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.

A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.

Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.

Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.

In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I just like men.

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

There are lots of risks, but without risks, there's no reward. I think the reward is bigger than the risk.

There is no such thing as "one-man show" in a winning team.

Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.