Love that has been tested is far more awe-inspiring than love that has never known anything but bliss.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Without the dark we'd never see the stars.

On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.

A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.

I like to have memories of a place. It brings something extra. I'm not even sure what it is. I mean, it's the same part of it as I like using friends in small parts or people I know or my doorman.

We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.

The words that we attach to our experience become our experience.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.