Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

All perfection is melancholy.

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

I will teach my son, that his desire to be great doesn't depend on those unfortunate enough to ignore their own.

By Identifying "SELF" as something you are just limiting it, killing the peace, love and harmony.

Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.

I don't get much out of doing a red carpet.

The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything.

I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.

The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.

You have to recharge your batteries.

But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more blessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.