The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.

How many companies can say that the amount of customers who use their services second most often, and spend the second most amount of money with them, are “very negative”?

Oh, oh, oh I can't do that and that... Okay I will do that, ... I gonna read this book, I will check out this film and in the end few of them have read the book or the books and the film or the films.

Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.

I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.