Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Never judge abook by just loking the cover

There are times when a man has need of the open heavens to compass his thoughts.

Patience brings perseverance.

You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.

When you finish writing the scripts they have time to take a breath and think about everything. There's just a little more time to think. Network does not allow for that.

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.

I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.