No one can be trusted who isn't thrilled with himself at least now and then.

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.

I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!

We live in a complicated society, Bromley—one that is changing and which does indeed need to change. But do you not think any change must begin within our own family gathering?

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

You can only lose what you cling to.

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

Every political edict which is not based upon nature is wrong.

If settled means that it cant be re-examined, thats one thing. If settled means that it is a precedent that is entitled to respect then it is a precedent that is protected.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Bassanio: Every offence is not a hate at first.