Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

You must not allow any of your time to pass by without adding value to yourself and reproducing your life in others.

Chaol, " he said, looking over his shoulder. Dorian's eyes were frozen, his jaw clenched. "Treat her well.

You cannot commit the folly of underestimating the power of a mother.

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Never think any oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.

Don't try to reach God with your understanding that is impossible. Reach him in love that is possible.

The very best people are like that. They don't entangle you like flypaper.

Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take that away

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.