Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

…but I think comedy is more aggressive than that. It is a medium for revenge. We can deflate and punish the pomposity and the rejection which hurt us. Comedy is power.

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

Humanity is just a virus with shoes.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

The better the book the more room for the reader.

To love someone so deeply means also that it will hurt a thousand times more when he disappoints or leaves you

For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.

I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.

The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.

We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off.