Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Real life is like that - it does not follow a neat plan. sometimes you have to get things very messily wrong so you can see how to get them right.

It was haunted

I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.

Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.

Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

I didn't start singing with my eyes open until I was 19 - that's how shy I was!

The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden.

I don't like to have the federal government start pushing its weight deeper and deeper into our schools. Let the states and localities do that.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.