If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.
A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.
One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.
Whatever your past may have been, your future is still spotless.
It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, `Thank you. You have been simply wonderful'.
Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.
The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.
I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.
You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.
The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.
However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too.
There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
Be happy and comfortable with who you are, whoever it may be.
No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?
There may be times in a girl's life when it's better to be boyless, but there's no need to be joyless. Or toyless.
A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be.