When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

There is perfect love in Heaven!

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please

You create a file called user.rb in the /models directory:

The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Because you're responsible for [children]. You are there to protect them, not possess them. I tell them, "Watch me and you might learn something."

Hollywood called me, asking me, "How much to do a movie with Farrah Fawcett?" "$50,000" They called back, "How about $20,000?" I said, "I'll pay it!"

The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.

I was born in 1934 and I didn't make my first movie until 1954.

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it's worth it, and it's a great thing.

When a situation feels dangerous to you, it's probably more safe than you know; when a situation feels safe, that is precisely when you should feel on guard.