Inspiration must find answering inspiration.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

We grow too old to lose old friends.

Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.

When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.

one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

I have a responsibility to my children to be fit and healthy.

So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.