Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste

The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.

The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.

Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule.

Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.

Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.

It is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value. The quality of time you are able to concentrate and use to produce values is what determines your greatness.

Every heart needs a cutting part sharper than a blade to stab agony

If shame had a face, I think it would kind of looked like mine... If it had a home, would it be my eyes?

I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.

The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be.

The biggest lies we save for ourselves.

I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.

Give cheerfully. If we're not cheerful, the problem is our heart, and the solution is redirecting our heart, not withholding our giving.

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions

The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.