If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

On Loyalty:Loyalty is warranted only when it's been earned.Misplacing loyalty is like signing blank checks.

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.

As part of the coalition against ISIL, we are putting that terrorist network under tremendous pressure.

I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.

Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.

I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next. It's like asking you to sing a line of Happy Birthday and then Goodnight Irene - assuming you know the words to both those songs

Adopt the motto: It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.

Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.