Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Only you can make yourself strong. Nobody else can do it for you.

There are two forces in the universe: fear and love. Trust is part of love because it makes you feel safe, and it is only in this state that you are capable of love.

... the first step to eternal live is you have to die.

If you use a cell phone - as I do - your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.

Song "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" is actually about syphilis.

The man is free who is protected from injury.

Exotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.

The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.

Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.