Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me

Responsibility entails that we demand and work for the change or transformation we yearn for in our society instead of wishful thoughts.

...did you know that in your eyes there are bright flecks of green and orange - and that they are lovely?...

Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!

You see shape, and how the light hits things, how the color changes from one end of the photo to the other, and how movement affects the mood of the photo.

The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character.

Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

One line plus one line results in many meanings.

When you get to the 35-year mark in your career, you make albums for your fans to love you more, so they don't forget about you.

Middle School is about as bad as it gets, and then it gets better.