Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.

I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own

I remember being away somewhere, and I had forgotten it was Valentine's Day with a person, and that was very embarrassing.

Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

America is a country founded on religious freedom and liberty.

Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

Nobody's too fat - they're just too short.