There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say.

And of all the rooms in my childhood, God was the largestand most empty.

Prospective teachers may read about the science of education, but they'll only grasp the art in their early years by seeing it practiced and having it commended to them.

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

I like people, for a little while.

You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

The car as we know it is on the way out.

He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

What I am looking for is a certain grace.