Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.
In economics, the majority is always wrong.
He only may chastise who loves.
The only joy in the world is to begin.
I love being a great-grandparent, but what I hate is being the the mother of a grandparent.
Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.
No one is happy all his life long.
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-or both.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
I was promised on a time, To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
I can't believe that out of a hundred thousand sperm, you were the quickest.
I've had several years in Hollywood and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.
There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely. The condemned man has that joy.