A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...

Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swa satta) cannot arise.

Getting rich is easy and staying rich is hard

In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city - except for bombing.

I believe strongly that we need to get beyond rhetoric, beyond industry and environmentalists fighting with each other, and seriously solve problems.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

I don't think there is one size that fits all. I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the first 10 minutes of the meeting setting up iPad to look like a laptop.

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.