In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament.

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

My theory of everything is that we are training kids to have gender bias against girls, therefore when you are an adult, you don't see it. We think it's normal.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.