All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Music open our minds to allow the perception of new thoughts of a higher nature, which gives us a spiritual lift, which produces yet more joy.

He picked some unwise words. Saying, “I’ll enjoy killing you for my lord”, is just not the way to make my acquaintance.

Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.

To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all.

The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.

Now we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.

Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate.