You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.

The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.

Orson Scott Card

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

Mohsin Hamid

All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908

Mark Twain

Even that. What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?

Michael Scott

Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also, because the thought which should be trained on big things is cluttered up with the burdensome detail of little things.

Philip Delaney

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

Nicholas Sparks

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

Orison Swett Marden

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.

William Ames

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

David Duchovny

Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Gabrielle Giffords

Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

Satchel Paige