We hear voices in solitude we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Kindness is always fashionable.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Forethought spares afterthought.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

There's always a person for every book. And a book for every person.

Damn, girl. If I still breathed, I'd be suffocated by how much I want you.

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.

Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors.

Energy is based on love.

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

You want to feel appreciated, definitely. I think I've been very lucky to have a long enough career, so that I do get this kind of feedback.