There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

Nothing is black or white.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Each soul is potentially divine.