Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.
Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
Jon smiled at him. I'm sorry about your wrist. Robb used the same move on me once, only with a wooden blade. It hurt like seven hells, but yours must be worse. Look, if you want, I can show you how to...
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.
Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...