Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Once you start questioning your beliefs, that's when it's all over. It is truly doubt that kills our conviction.

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.

I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist.

The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.

A leader moves ahead but not so fast that the others can't keep up.

My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!

For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

Jump blind and you might find yourself on the rim of a raging volcano, or smack in the middle of a battlefield during a savage war, or on a swiftly tilting ice floe in a tempest-tossed sea.