Avoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

Sensibility is the power of woman.

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think...and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

When you rise in the morning form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.

We're gonna believe in each other, we're not gonna criticize each other, we're not gonna talk about each other, we're gonna encourage each other

God has a lot of things to teach us in Heaven, things we didn't learn in this life.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

True hospitality is a delicate balance of warmth and form.

Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on.

Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive.

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.