One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.

People make one happy, not houses.

Love has no place in a lawyer's office.

Life goals hold the key to a lifetime of success.

One never sleepwalks through grizzlyland, dreaming of other places to be.

Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Life happens at intersections.

You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.

I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.

In order to plant the Gospel, we must take risk.

It's better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother's ear.

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.