The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Working on yourself will reveal a new image of yourself

Comedy, of course, lives for serious moments.

Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it.

In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.

There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.

Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.

Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.

We shouldn't be too naïve, or taken in by charisma.

Leadership doesn't come from age.