Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

God is my peace.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times.

Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.

You crush me with the things you do, I do for anything too...each moment the more I love you.

In the dance the boundaries between body and soul are effaced. The body moves itself spiritually, the spirit bodily.

Let the artist show his world, the beauty that was born with him, that never was before and never will be again.

One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there.

During a national crisis, we as a nation become a single community and no one should take advantage of a crisis.