A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

There are no stoplights on love’s road

It's not about you.

Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.

Audiences can be very judgmental.

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.

Nobody is lost until somebody has given up.

If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's the world coming to?

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.

Worry worships the words of the enemy