One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.

A weakling is incapable of sincerity.

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

One of the challenges for lawyers can be explaining, first of all, what the legal issue is and, second, its significance. And both of those are important.

I've gotta believe in what my heart tells in me, even if it's a fake thing.

You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.

I'm a workaholic. I work and work and work.

Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God!

If I wear make-up, then people recognise me, but the rest of the time, no one really bothers.

To make your voice heard is difficult. Sometimes we have to burn ourselves in order to be heard. It is out of compassion that you do that. It is the act of love and not of despair.

Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets.

From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.

The words that we attach to our experience become our experience.