Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

A hero in one age will be a hero in another.

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

The life of a good man is a continual prayer.

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

The law has no power over heroes.

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

There is no logic like the logic of the heart.

Love is easy early on...it's when feelings ebb and flow and the busyness of life creeps in that real love shines through in small conscious choices.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.

At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.

The truly thankful person is a truly peaceful person.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall-that of our consciousness-between the world and ourselves.

It's a god-eat-god world.