[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was 1.

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

Neglect your art for one day and it will neglect you for two!

Every day is your day if you claim it.

The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.

Even in my prime, I need God in my life because without God, we're nothing.

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.

As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.