It is just that I don’t know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to live with wooden legs.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

Believe in yourself. Know you have what it takes, to make excellence a good habit. Focus on doing excellent work and use discipline to make it happen.

Faithfulness to God requires your obedience, even when it’s difficult.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.

Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.

Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.

My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!

A woman called me interesting once, and it kind of blew my mind. She said, 'You're one of the most interesting people I've ever met,' and I was like, 'Wow.'