He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.

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.

There is nothing to fearFrom your reflection

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.

The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is no less prodigious than the first.

It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of the way.

All good performance starts with clear goals.

There is nothing more powerful and beautiful than motherhood.

It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used to writing and doing these little miniature paintings.

Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.