Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

Sensibility is the power of woman.

I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.

The size of your paycheck shouldn’t determine your child’s future.

To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.

Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.

Right now I feel that I've got my feet on the ground as far as my head is concerned.

Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.

Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness

Love means sharing the world with someone else.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.