If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Our people are good people

If freedom isn't free and people's rights are being violated and suppressed, then Governments have NO need to exist.

Acting is happy agony.

I'm getting more famouser by the day!

American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won't be disappointed in me.

I don’t like facts, because facts get in the way of my feelings.

Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.

One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.