It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Cast thy burden on the Lord and he shall sustain thee.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.

I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.

There are other ways I think of myself as spoiling myself ... I ... get a massage once a week. Other people can, I didn't used to, and I can now.