My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

Someone, Someday, Everybody has to walk the road of change.

That is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage.

Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

I can promote until I am blue in the face, but ultimately nobody knows what makes a hit.

Real estate prices are way out of whack with what people earn.

It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity.

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.