All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

Martin Tupper

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

V. S. Naipaul

The other night a mugger took off his mask and made me wear it.

Rodney Dangerfield

How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing. It seems still more impossible that a quarrel which has already been settled in principle should be the subject of war.

Neville Chamberlain

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Michael Korda

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

Charles V

To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

Virginia Woolf

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai E. Stevenson

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Sir Walter Besant

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

Jane Fonda

There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Toni Morrison