A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

We always hurt the ones we love, darling. You’ll have to tell her you’re sorry. And mean it and give her time. - Grace Trevelyan-Grey to Christian Grey

The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

The biggest black eye that you can give the devil is to give God your pain and let Him turn it into gain.

I believe in no final solutions.

In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore.

Leaving GH was not my choice. I wanted to stay and work out a deal, and that was not an option to me.

In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.