Great men always have dogs.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

Ignorance is darkness.

Yes, just like those flowers. There's something strained, but there's beauty in that. Something like that

It is always now

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

That same preface also contains a single line that really does sum everything up: 'Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.'

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.

Males and females have never seemed to fully understand each other. It will probably continue this way, but I think that's part of the magic of it all.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.