People want things to be complicated, but they have to love themselves first and then each other and then it will seed everywhere

People respond to kindness. They trust a smile more than a promise that you will leave them choking on their own blood.

And the night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

There is no such thing as a difficult dog, only an inexperienced owner.

Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.

Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy!

I love different folks.

It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity.