An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Forget about tomorrow

Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.

I never smile unless I mean it.

I stick to playing Brahms, but I love listening to Led Zeppelin, and I've also been a big fan of Earth Wind and Fire since the Seventies and of The Gap Band since the Eighties.

It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts.

The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.

Seize the moment – don’t wait for anyone to give you permission.

The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.

To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.

Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves to.