To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.

I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.'

No matter what you look like or think you look like, you're special and loved and perfect just the way you are.

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.

I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.

It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity.

I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.

A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.

You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.