Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

The more we grow in faith, the less we shall fear.

Whenever you hear yourself or others telling you you cannot do something, do that particular something, and notice how quickly everyone shuts the hell up.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.

Before you ask for the people to rise up and take what's theirs, meet the people, because they're really, really, bafoons.

Bette Davis taught Hollywood to follow an actress instead of the actress following the camera, and she's probably the best movie actress there's ever been.

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

It takes a while to really love yourself...

Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo.

I believe in dancing.

I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.