Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.