In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

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.

Trust in the process of life.

Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake

I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

According to a new survey, people who get divorced die early. People who stay married live longer. The difference is they just wish they were dead.

The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.

We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.