We are rich only through what we give and poor only through what we refuse.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

The heart has always the pardoning power.

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

Old age is that night of life as night is the old age of day. Still night is full of magnificence and for many it is more brilliant than the day.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you it's a kind of an environmental thing.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guy was very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.

Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist.

Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment.

I think everyone thinks their family is insane, and every family is insane. There is no real normal.

As I grow older, I constantly learn more.