To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!

It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.

Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .

No one can ever help loving anyone.

Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.

Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.

Work alone qualifies us for life.

Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.

Learn more. Love more. Laugh more. Live more.

I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Our greatest resource is the human resource.

Historically whoever advocates truth always suffers. I am just a fighter for the truth. Our truths are universal

I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.