There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Necessity is a mother.

I don't like to just have a repetitive life where I do the same thing over and over. I love to be able to learn something new, explore something new.

I do believe that billionaires and multi-millionaires should be paying more in taxes.

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

An evangelical minister has had to resign after pictures surfaced showing him in a hot tub with two women. He claimed it was just a baptism gone terribly wrong.

You know this is a dicey situation anyway you look at it.

I would rather die then try to live without you”, “May you always love me and want me but never have me”, “May you never love anyone but me”.

Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded.

Everyone has a story.

I once heard a woman laugh at that most tragic moment in all drama, the off-stage shot in "The Wild Duck," and I afterward had her killed, so there will be no more of that out of her.