Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

She was the captain of her soul

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.