Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

You are my angel.

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

I am very much in love with no one in particular.

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

When you practice selfless giving, you're in balance and harmony with everything.

Fashion was a very insider industry then - it was very closed. So I didn't really know what I wanted to do.

The life is worth living. It's not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We're not on this earth to suffer and die. We're here to fulfill a mission.

It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't get them because I have an accent.

I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again.