Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
I'd rather do more with the same, then the same with less.
It's okay. We're all messed up in our own special way.
Mrs. Penniman always, even in conversation, italicised her personal pronouns.
Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.
Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!
Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.
I'm an athlete, so I can dress down with the best of them. I can throw on t-shirts and sweats with the best of them.
I'm changing lineups obviously to give everybody their best opportunity to show what they can do. Just giving everybody their fair chance to assess that properly.
Playing in the playoffs is the best basketball in the world, and if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year.
I can feel that I'm in a dream, but I can't wake myself up.
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.
It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come.
I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.
