In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.

If time be judiciously employed, there is time for everything.

It's too bad war makes peopledisappear like chess pieces, and that prisonsturn prisoners into movie endings.

Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first.

For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more completely unintelligible than the reasoning that is bred of tears.

One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment.

It just kills me when these girls look at magazines and wish they could look like that. I try to tell them, 'Nobody looks like that. Everything's airbrushed.'

There's responsibility, but there's also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad.

The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

What's interesting about textiles is that they are determined about three seasons in advance, that's why when you walk into a store you think "Gee, everything looks about the same."

Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist.