Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

How we relate with other people is dependent on how we rate ourselves and what we think about ourselves.

Everyone has his or her own means of defining value.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love.

The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.

Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

I love that this film [Into the Forest] has a balance.

I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.

I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!

Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.