But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

Life is about happiness—not about success.

Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45.

We have a rule in our franchise that there is no canon. You as a player decide what your story is.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

Have you ever noticed?--people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.

All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.