I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

Time did not compose her.

the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.

Humans are forever discontent—always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances.

Justice always has context.

Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.

At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.

As time passes, I feel more and more a sense of acting being a fundamental part of who I am.

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?

I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.