Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

All perfection is melancholy.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

To find inner bliss and happiness through yoga, learn to accept things as they are by changing your thoughts.

What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself.

I still believe Americas destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity.

There are certain people I trust no matter what. Even when it seems like they've turned into monsters, you need to stay true to them. Because, in the end, they'll be the ones backing you up.

When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.