Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.

Just because I accept you as you are does not mean that I have given up all hope of your improvement.

I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.

Even when I'm happy and successful, life still goes on.

If you have something to say and say nothing, you are really telling a lie.

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

My problems aren't big but it doesn't necessarily take a big problem to kill me.