No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.

A timid person is frightened before a danger a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards.

The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)

It is easy to flatter it is harder to praise.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.

God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depths of the soul.

Suspense doesn’t always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.

When you lose yourself in love, you find everything.

I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.

I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life.

In a weird way, when everyone's feeling that the world's going to hell in a hand basket, I kind of relax a little more because I often feel like that.

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

That's important when you are running an organization so that the people who work with you know what you believe in and know those beliefs won't change.

Racism is a belief in the inherent superiority of one race over another.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.