Success never needs an excuse.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

I do not feel any obligations toward my lineage, or environment, but an inclination to what feels right.

The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.

Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear which remains unsatisfied and even uneasy until it hears something better.

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.

Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.