Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman.

I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.

To accept reality is only to encourage it.

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement.

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.