“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.”

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

One can say everything best over a meal.

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft.

You know, now that I come to think of it, the blizzard may be the best thing to happen to the American economy in 12 months.

The Scalia seat is defense. We’re not going to get any better than Justice Scalia. The best we can do is preserve constitutional victories like upholding the Second Amendment, like protecting religious liberty. But we’re not going to get any better.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.

It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.

War is at its best barbarism.