How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!

What the eye does not see, the heart does not rue

prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent.

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe, I must be less communicative, in order to be less troublesome.

Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.

swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.

Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions.

The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me.

A woman who walks with God honors Him in the way she manages her home.

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.

All other things being equal, greens break to the west.

I loved this woman the way you love ... well, nothing," he said, a note of suprise in his voice. "You can’t compare that kind of love to anything, can you? It’s its own unique gift.

The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

In the beginning God said, the four-dimensional divergence of an antisymmetric, second rank tensor equals zero, and there was light, and it was good. And on the seventh day he rested.

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be.