Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.

Think like a Fox, but don't Behave like one!

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center.

When someone respects you, s/he confronts you in private before taking you in public and/or stabbing in the back and backbiting you...

You want to break the curse, I want to break the curse. We don't need to be nice. We need to be effective. Just help me figure it out, and I'll make you a rich woman.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.

Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?