Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.

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.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a tendency. I would say I was a supporter of Paul Wolfowitz.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

I've put out kind of a lot of albums and people seem to like it and the crowds keep getting bigger and bigger, so I think maybe I could make a life out of it.

The sound needed a hub to grow, and that hub was Big Apple.

In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.

Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.