The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Before you eat the elephant, make sure you know what parts you want to eat.

We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through meditation.

On the shores of tranquility, meet me between now and again.

The Bible is the one book which reveals the Creator to the creature He created! No other book that man has conceived can make that statement and support it with fact.

The enjoyment comes from knowing the receiver understands the spirit of the gift.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.

Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project.

We are all cells in the body of humanity - all of us, all over the world. Each one has a contribution to make, and will know from within what this contribution is.