A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

The mind longs for what it has missed.

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

The world wants to be deceived.

Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb

Women are one and all a set of vultures.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.

Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.

When we look from the bottom of a well, sky shines more beautifully than from the surface! Heaven is a Double-Heaven in the Hell!

Beverly Hills is too intimidating. Everyone's got lovely teeth, so you don't want to smile. Everyone's ripped, so you start working out at 4 in the morning and eating egg white omelets.

Commandments are opportunities to exercise our agency and to receive blessings.

Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

And to live without risk for me would have been tantamount to death.

I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.

Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get the book right.

If you improve 1% a day, then in 100 days, guess what? You're 100% better.

I'll pretend that I want you for what is on the inside.