And you each gentle animal In confidence may bind, And make them follow at your call, If you are always kind.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didn’twork out the first time.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

I don't go out with strangers," I said. "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.

If we grew up with nothing, we're complicated with that. That's the thing I keep hearing from people.

I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

I always want to watch something I've done, so that I know what I didn't do well.

Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.

The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'

David I knock you out! - While pointing to the camera with a smirk.