Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.
Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
I always push myself, even when I did a film where it was pretty much me the whole film.
A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.