Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.

I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs.

Every single one of you, before you get off the pile, affect the head. Early, affect the head. Continue, touch and hit the head.

Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

It's amazing the things that you cry at. I cry when I smell my son's hair in the morning. We have a moment of peace and I'll be like, 'Ahhhh! How can you love this much?'

A relationship ends because you've outgrown it. It can begin again because you, as two, can fill the new shape.

It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.

My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.