I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Perfection is a ridiculous goal because there is no such thing. Real beauty is what you are inside.

Giving is normal and anybody can give but to sacrifice during giving is the matter!

If your daily life seems poor do not blame it blame yourself tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

I just always look for stuff that has a character-driven thing.

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

You have been created by God and for God, and someday you will stand amazed at the simple yet profound ways He has used you even when you weren't aware of it.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.

In a huge way, everything that I've done in my life has helped inform my ability to communicate with actors and direct them.