"There’s something to be said for doing one thing right."

“I come from a poor family.”

“If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.”

Source : Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.153, Stanford University Press

“If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.”

“Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.”

“Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.”

“I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: . . . with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history.”

“I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.”

“When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.”