He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

When you hide the bodies of the problems, that's how you eventually amass skeletons in your closet.

The girl was eighty percent kitten and twenty percent lioness, and he considered it his mission to make her roar.

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

I tell you what you’ll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves letting go.

Because wisdom is innate, we can all enlighten ourselves.

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.