All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.

... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

We all have our own life to pursue, Our own kind of dream to be weaving... And we all have the power To make wishes come true, As long as we keep believing.

It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.