If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

We give up too soon. The sure way to succeed is to endure to the very end.

Children only know what you teach them.

Mr Benz, the parapet of an Italian bridge doesn’t look like the proper place for you, ” said Chase.

We can't control on how each day will fall, but we can control how we fall into each day. Learn to make adjustments to match the circumstances.

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6, 000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

America can no longer afford to be as arrogant as we've been. We can no longer exempt ourselves from the global family of concern.

You might be an interested guy, an interested reported then I get to know you and then I know you're this also and you're this also and you may hide it in a certain way. That's what I love.

You must always do what you feel is right.