Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

I know what is going on in the heart of an atheist. Deep anguish that there is nothing beyond, nothing to live for, nothing to give him hope. I know because I endured the same predicament.

There was a flicker of something in Greta's look. I couldn't tell whether it was a flicker of love or regret or meanness.

When men have a smile on their faces, that does a lot for me.

Really the only person that can let you down is yourself.

I don't want to impede free press, by the way. The last thing I would want to do is that.

I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.

Your problems pale in comparison with those of the millions of people in the world who do not have enough to eat.

I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.