The student is to read history actively not passively.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

What I must do is all that concerns me,

You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.

Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence.

Patient endurance attends to all things.

Take heart! Many great things have been done by people in poor mental health.

My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

Sometimes Harvey Weinstein will let me use the Miramax jet if I'm opening a supermarket for him.

And so I'm still giving some thought. I will transition, hopefully, into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.

Everything you declare with your lips will be tested in your life.

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.

What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.