A modest woman dressed out in all her finery is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

Some fictions become fixtures in the real city. Their stories are so powerful that they leap off the page on to the streets, irreversibly altering the place where they were set.

Without awareness, we are not truly alive.

If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!

I listen to everything. My I-Pod's really diverse-from guitar instrumentals to Rascal Flatts to Usher.

I don't know all the certain words to word it.

I personally like a little rehearsal, not if I'm gonna have a super emotional scene you wanna have it be a fresh thing.