You have proved it is a very moral habit.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

The happiness of a family is such a complex matter. Like a table laid out with a tea service, it looks so ordinary until it's threatened. Then it becomes infinitely precious.

How easy to be electrocuted. How fine the line between beauty and peril.

Girls get under each other's skin. We get too close, too attached, too crazy, and then we can't let go. Our claws sink too deep. When we separate, we tear each other apart.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.

Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone.

I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that wealth gives you.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it.

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.