It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned it will fall like choicest music.

Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

In ourselvesIn our own honest hearts and chainless handsWill be our safeguard

Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

wisdom is the beacon of knowledge

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.

Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer.

I'm making tapes for insomniacs to use in the future. I'm going to sell them as a kit to cure insomnia.

A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.

Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body.

Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.