Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Each man's soul is his genius.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.

If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good.

It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.

Having children and raising them will bring new purpose and new life to Heaven. It will not be the end of everything, but the beginning!

In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

It would be nice if everybody who had something interesting to say about my work could say it politely and civilly, but it doesn't work that way... Sometimes people are just really nasty.

Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind.

People see me laughing and telling jokes, but they had no idea after the show was over, I had no joy in my life, in my heart.

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.