The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

Overtime, your actions betray your heart.

the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation

Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy - a complicated joy, but a joy.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.

God is what's good in me.

But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.

I do understand sometimes when actors say there's no one to talk to, or you can't react to, there's truth in that, but for me, I've always enjoyed green screen, and blue screen.

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.