You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

...remember that what has once been done may be done again.

Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

I love you, not because you are perfect, but because I created a place for you in my heart.

Trademark yourself with the mark of excellence.

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay.

Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying. In fact, the people that die in my movies have gone on to become extremely successful!

Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.

That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."

Every room that you walk into is better off that you're there.

Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because it’s sterile and I like the taste.