It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

All perfection is melancholy.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

Peace can happen in 24 hours....just like war can happen in 24 hours.

I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.

Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]

The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.