A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

There is nothing uglier than a very beautiful face with an ugly heart.

Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour?

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger love can even hold hatred.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.

I would kill to do more work with Orla Brady, I think she's that gifted.

Maybe I'm competitive. I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, "Someone unwrap it! Here it is!" That drive can't be held down. I have a lot of ambition.

You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.