How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.

Problems are everywhere, so are Solutions. Unfortunately, we see more of the Problems than the Solutions.-RVM

Abundant evidence exists to prove that we are continually creating excuses to explain why we do not reach our goals.

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.

I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.

The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them.

Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.

What was your greatest challenge? Staying alive as a business, staying ahead of the game, and melding my business life with my personal life.

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.