Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.

Time is not so all-erasing as we think.

It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.

They did not realize what a supreme effort of courage it required to make this young girl go out alone into the wide world, and face its vastness and its strangeness.

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house but you cannot build the house without them.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

if you want more of Jesus, give Him more of yourself

A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

I've been married for 17 years and you know how the actors say, "It's really technical. Those scenes are not sexy. They're just so technical. It's like work." And I'm like, "That's bullshit."

The Bible urges us to be respectful to all people, especially people with whom we have disagreements, to never libel people, to never label people.

Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one’s skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

You'll change. You'll see. Wait till you meet Mr. Right.

A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.

I am a realist. I expect miracles.