People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

The holiness of the gospel is its ability to pierced though the heart.

When reality hurts, make sure to soar above the dream-stained sky!

There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

The Peace you long for also longs for you.

There's a lot of things you can put up with, as long as you're not related to them.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job.

In a free society men and women should not be prevented by Government from seeking medical remedies which they believe will be effective.

I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.