A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so.

Experience is the mother of custom.

It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.

I've never declined to do an interview.

True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.

There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear.

Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.