Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

Everyone is looking for a miracle, when God puts in your heart the desire to pursue after your dreams, that's a miracle!

We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for.

Maybe it was time to cut the strings of everyone’s expectations and free-fall for once in her life

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.