There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.

We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.

Only the home can found a state.

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.

The sense of duty pursues us ever.

Sin is free, or you cannot make sin out of it.

What's helped me is having really good friends I know I can rely on. Cameron Diaz is one of the greatest friends anyone can ever have. She has so much love to give.

In order to keep your husband, you have to make time for him. Rather than going out to dinner, I like to spend time for just the two of us.

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.

This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees and the birds and the rivers and the mountains and the stars.

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.

That's not the federal law. What you're confusing is law with the opinion of a justice, what one lone federal judge says is not law.

In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.

I love challenging the status quo.

Without love our life is ... a ship without a rudder ... like a body without a soul.