...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

I am the instigator of my adversities but at the same time I am the architect of my success.

It is pointless and impossible to maintain a modern ideology based on inaccurate memories of a dead and distant past.

Language is the only homeland.

Happiness is not a destination but a choice.

You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There's no excuse for not.

There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

I can never see fashion models, lean angular cheeks, strutting hips and blooming hair, without thinking of the skulls at the catacombs in Lima, Peru.

If you work all the time, you lose the intermittence of reflection and thought at every stage. Take breaks - for you and your work.