A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

The survived souls give strength to the suffering souls.

Attack! Always Attack!

The greed of the billionaire class has got to end and we are going to end it for them.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

You just have to keep in mind that the important relationship is the relationship with the audience. That's what I try to do. Everything else is secondary.

Discipline is the highest form of love. If you really love someone, you have to give them the level of discipline they need.

That's what perseverance is. You go through some tough times and you fight through it. And now, it's over. It's over.