Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish into the vast sea of God.

A new lens to look through. Hear the pain in people's speaking. People who have an ear to hear can hear. You will no longer tolerate what you used to tolerate. A second point of reality. It's the loving thing to do. What's being revealed here? Dogs don't have things wrong. Wrong disempowers people. Upsets indicate a "right" that's been violated. Notice when you are angry that you are the only one around. The only constant thing is you. Business is made up. It's invented. If it really turns you on, you may want to inform your face. There is no "right" way. .

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.

Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in the wit is out. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.

Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all The other feigned to be. The flippant Frenchman speaks: I weep; And Shakespeare weeps with me.

if the shoe fits, wear it.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

The style is the man.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

. . . but while I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.

Genius is only patience.

The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.