This pure little drop from a pure little source was too sweet: it penetrated deep, and subdued the heart

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both.

Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language the medium of better utterance than faltering lips can achieve?

. . . if there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it . . .

This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-dominant force sufficient to crush him at once.

I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains.

The world, I soon learned, held a different estimate: and I make no doubt, the world is very right in its view, yet believe also that I am not quite wrong in mine.

Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.

Life never seizes to have a brighter side of it. Unfortunately, many are blindfolded from seeing it because they are fully focused on its dark side.

Happiness is a feeling that can never be created without constantly reminding yourself about the things that are good in your life instead of the things that are bad about it.

You teach what you need to learn.

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

We had 10 months, sliding schedule to do 52 episodes. After you get over the shock of the size of the number, the job became one of expansion.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

I started out performing as a little boy, I was trying to make my mother feel better and laugh because she was sick and in pain all the time. I found out that I had that power to relieve her.

A completely secure life can be found only outside the life!

You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.

I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.