Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.

Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.

Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.

The question was, have you heard from anyone on the [Donald] Trump transition team? We have not been contacted.

My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.

I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day so instead I play golf with other unemployed actors. I'm a member of the Stage Golfing Society and I play golf with all sorts of people.

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.