Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

Life is not a problem to be solved. It is an opportunity to love and unfold the beauty of life.

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.

I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.

I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.

It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.

Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important.

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

People don't ask Andre Agassi, 'You know you're the No. 1 tennis player in the world... have you thought about polo?'

You have to be yourself. You have to go up and you just have to do it.