The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

If you invite a snake into your home, do not be surprised if it bites you.

...the act of kindness is an unselfish act, it is medicine for your soul...

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

The best way to be global is to be local.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.

She fell apart because that's what happens.

Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

Christlike love is a gift of the Spirit.