I would always rather be happy than dignified.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

You are human and fallible.

The silverware shines if the sun. (L'argenterie brille - Si le soleil.

Weakness is not a characteristic you want to share with the world

I think [Guettel is] probably one of our most special writers now, pushing things in ways that are unique.

When you look back at your career, there are moments that are levels that you hit and you bounce off them.

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

I came away from the talk with the perception that the risk of adverse side effects is so much greater than the risk of cervical cancer, I couldn’t help but question why we need the vaccine at all.

As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don't know, I just got quieter With my friends, I was still an extrovert.

Perhaps that is what it means to be a father - to teach your child to live without you.

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.

I don’t just kiss people. Kisses aren’t... just with me.