A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

Nurture your Dream everyday. A strong dream will empower you to take bold decisions and allow you to follow your heart.

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.

Teaching is the best way to learn.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.

I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

Donald [Trump] has had a long career of using great wealth and power trying to bully others.

Just when I'm about to part with my friends is when I realize that I had the best group of friends ever.