I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room in which to parade his self-solicited hurt.

It was a kiss made in lonely dreams. A kiss that took its time. A kiss that felt so right she couldn't remember all the reasons it was wrong.

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.