A man's measure is his will.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.

One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures.

I spend too much money on my sets and my gowns. I think the presentation is important. I don't think people want to see the old show all the time.

I mean, think of Flint. I mean, think of the lead poisoning of thousands of poor and black children across the United States.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

The courageous struggle for a noble cause should be considered success itself.

I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.

Sometimes you need to give people something that's for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it.

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it