Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

I believe in solving social ills with business skills.

Every emotional wound is due to a lack of love. Love is the cause and the remedy. Love is always the answer.

You shall overcome every limitation and soar high on Eagle’s wing.

They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.

When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.