A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.

A timid person is frightened before a danger a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards.

The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)

It is easy to flatter it is harder to praise.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.

God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depths of the soul.

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

The high road is littered with pot shots.

A nonhot boy stares at you and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy...well.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless

To attain knowledge, add things every day To attain wisdom, remove things every day

I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.