Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

It takes great courage to open one's heart and mind to the tremendous injustice and suffering in our world.

The greatest compliment in the world is your adult children telling you they had a wonderful childhood.

You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.

People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.

How many mistakes were made that we don?t know about.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.

The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance.

Someone shouts, "Enough!" and I think too much and nothing at all.

First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.