Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.

Silence leads us back to our purpose, and it ignites creativity and vision.

I realized that what matters with any innovation is that it actually creates more value for people.

It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?

If you simply cannot make the right decision, make a decision and then make it right.

I think that actresses can be in all different shapes and sizes, but it is a profession, and as an actor, your body is one of your big tools. So you've got to be fit in a sense.