“We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.”

Necessity knows no Sunday.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.

People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.

I’ve been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.

If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is.

I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.

I went to my agent and told them, ‘I want to be on another Disney show.’

Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird.

In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have to put that game behind you because you have another game the next night.