But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

A jug fills drop by drop.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Memory... is an internal rumour.