When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.

War is the echo that never dies. No society strives for war, they are always tricked into it.

Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society.

The wise will make holiness and purity their priority.

What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.

I'm the only one who still believes in Santa Claus!

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.

We have no lesson to teach Russia if we concurrently roll out the red carpet to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and China.

The words are easy - most of them have already been invented.

At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.