"As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything."

"We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse."

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

"Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profiteth others and ourselves."

"Your mailbox is your window to your heart! Make sure you leave that window open!"

"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts."

"Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them."

"The dew has fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning."

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."

"Instant gratification is not soon enough."

"What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!"

"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."