When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

What is knowledge, if it does to shape our conduct?

Every meal should be prepared with love and eaten in peace, because its purpose is to strengthen us for the service of Love.

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

Music without a message is just sound

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

When the legs go, the heart soon follows

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

The soul aspiring pants its source to mount,As streams meander level with their fount.

It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.