The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.

Look beyond what you can see, Think Potential

I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!

Overall Bush's European trip has been an overwhelming success. Not once has he gotten separated from his group.

Oh I do want that thing, that oneness of movement that will catch the thing up into one movement and sing - harmony of life.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

Obsess about the quality of the product.

I'd like to direct more operas.