An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

When you decide not to discipline yourself to seek for knowledge in any area, God sees it as the rejection of knowledge.

You do know what I mean about Mom. It's like she radios into headquarters for Dad's feelings when she senses hers need backup.

Sometimes you don't let us talk about how we're feeling. If we feel scared, you say, 'Nothing to worry about, guys, ' but that doesn't make it go away. It makes it grow.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

The heart bowed down by weight of woe to weakest hope will cling.

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.

Great heart will not be denied.

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.