The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

Forgiveness is remembering the truth of who you are.

... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.

The biggest mistake of a democratic country is to underestimate the power of a democratically elected pro-fascist leader because it is always easier to destroy a castle from within!

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.

Lots of you know me as a lone, hard-bitten columnist, prone to lurking on deserted rocky promontories while searching for my muse.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.

There's two ways of working in Washington, ... One is to go along and get along. The other is to stand up for what you believe in.