Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Fear is often bred of an imagination that couldn’t let something be what it actually was.

He had the blue kite in his hands

The human heart is a healer, which heals both others and ourselves.

Calls ignored, texts unanswered, short replies, excuses made. All I can say is don't be surprised when you're not in my future.

... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has.

Investor confidence in Adani is fairly high, and most of our investors are long-term investors.

If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.

I read letters and journal entries by [Georgia] O'Keeffe (which were infinitely more useful than any critical analysis of her work).

I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.