But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us…

Service is born out of love not duty.

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and opportunities with respect to a wide range of contingencies.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

NVC requires us to be continually conscious of the beauty within ourselves and other people.

Man have to have friends even in hell.

The larger your beloved community, the more you can accomplish in the world.

Yes, I had cancer. Right now, I am totally clean. The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die.

I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.