Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.

If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.

I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.I've a pain in my head,I wish I was dead.In a coffin of lead-With the Wise and the Brave-I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.

If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.

Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.

Stats don't measure an athlete's hunger.

Nothing is worth having if it isn't worth showing off…

When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.

I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; its a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.

The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.