Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

There is no accounting for tastes.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.

The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!

the ballerina on perfected toeSpins to the axis of a fortitudeThat is the sum of all her yesterdays.

It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.

Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.

When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

I've always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, "You're the only person who can play this part."

We have to awaken ourselves into that new awareness by which we can know the absolute truth and we can know that Divine power which is surrounding us.

Most people today in our churches are lost, and they demonstrate that they are lost because their entire Christianity is nothing more than, 'They made a decision.'

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.