Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Giving is true having.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.