Learn as though you would never be able to master it, hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

She wore a wreath of roses, The night that first we met.

Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West.

(I'm all over that)...like a fly on shit.

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

The wallet of the timid man neither increases nor decreases.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want. -Sue Bender.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England! -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 8.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

"Presents," I often say, endear Absents."

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.