It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.

Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.

Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances.

Tomorrow gets better if you get today better.

How we need another soul to cling to.

War has no longer the justification that it makes for the survival of the fittest

And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners.

People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived.

A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.

I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.

I s'pose, I can't have it all my own way, can I? You can't drown in a person unless they let you.

You can fall into a trap, worrying too much about what the audience might think, rather than going from the inside out.