Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.

Let all the love and beauty of our lives bloom like a flower reflected through our smiles.

Sticking to one person for a lifetime is not a waste of time or lack of better ones, it means you've found your place of eternity.

If you're worth over $50m you should have to dress like that guy on the Monopoly box. The super-rich shouldn't get all the benefits of looking like a regular guy.

The great thing about getting older is that you learn not to care about being cool. I'm happy with who I am, I know what I like and I can't see myself changing… not for a little while, at least.

What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.

If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.

I want to identify what a genuine man does—the virtues, the habits, the disciplines, the duties, the actions of true manhood—and then call men to do it.

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.