“I was blown up while we were eating cheese.”

“I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.”

“Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do”

“Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?”

“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”

“I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth,forgone all custom of exercise.”

“Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave.”

“The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself in that moment what THOUGHT you can have that will make you feel GOOD!”

“If ever thou shalt love,In the sweet pangs of it remember me;For such as I am all true lovers are,Unstaid and skittish in all motions elseSave in the constant image of the creatureThat is beloved.”

“Love sees with the heart and not with mind.”

“I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.”

“Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.”

“Greatness knows itself.”

“Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is?”

“Be great in act, as you have been in thought.”

“He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.”

“Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.”