Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Dreams are realities in oxygenated form

The Holy Spirit can take God’s word of truthand minister it to our deepest needs.

My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.

Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.

If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

One lesson to learn is that the press and the broadcasters are not neutral. And it seems we have to learn it each time there is a dispute: they are actually committed to one side.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.