We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Kids are real artists. They’d rather paint the outside of the box than being stuck inside.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.

The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

Drinking can bring out a dude that has some issues.

My folks were farm people from Nebraska, so I like home cooking.

My father ran the gamut: a favorite of his was Josef Hofmann, but there was also Friedman, Rachmaninoff, Godowsky, Lhevinne, Moiseiwitsch, Paderewski, etc.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

How can one dive into the intricate mystery of man when One doesn't see where One is located