No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.
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.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
A good liar must have a good memory.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Humility is attentive patience.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
Fashion changes, but style endures.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.