Ambition is only vanity ennobled.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

The false world is full of illusions and misery.

Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories.

Anybody from the public can come in and observe ballots being processed and those votes being counted in elections officials' offices in any county in any state in the nation.

Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'

History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history.

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.