The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

Try to leave an Impression on someone’s Heart, rather than a Paper.

‎The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.

I hate it when you answer a question with a question." "No you dont, you think its charming.

People who don't like Trump really don't like Trump. And I guess I'm among them.

My parents were my heroes and my role models. So I thought long and hard over decisions that I would make because I never wanted to disappoint them and break their hearts.

History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.

It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!