Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

Damen's The One. Always has been. Always will be.

They remember me as this shy girl sitting under the table. But they obviously didn't know what was going on in my head.

Excellent wine generates enthusiasm. And whatever you do with enthusiasm is generally successful.

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

The Autumn seems to cry for thee,Best lover of the Autumn-days!

My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that's gotta be your hero.

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.