Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.

Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.

Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.

It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.

We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances.

Hope is a believe in God.

There is no future in the past and there is no real hope in the future, only regrets, worries, plans and aim for the best.

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

In violent and chaotic times such as these our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order in making little havens of our homes.

What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities

I am my age. I'm not making any effort to change it.

Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.

Ain't that America, home of the free? Little pink houses for you and me.

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader’s attention.