Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

Love is the symbol of eternity.

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

Prayer is the life of the soul.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

London is a language. I guess all places are.

Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go.

... only one man could have been responsible for their deaths: Richard III.

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.

I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.

In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.

It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future".

Fantasy and science fiction stories are very applicable to talking to your children about the world. They tend to talk about the big questions regarding life and the universe.

you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.