I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.
Some men have only one book in them, others a library.
Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
Did we kiss last night?" "Yes. " "Well, it wasn't memorable because I have no recollection of it. " He laughs. "I was kiddin'. We didn't kiss. " He leans in. "When we kiss you'll remember it. Forever.
Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
I think there are more transgendered in America than there are people who worry about the comfort and security who broke in our country illegally, who are living here illegally, are taking jobs illegally, how quickly it moves doesn't really matter.