Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

A simple touch of kindness can heal a wound of the soul which no medicine can touch.

If man will understand the real essence of staying in the solitude with his Maker alone, he will never spend all his time with the crowd always

Don't ignore me. I only get more annoying.

I've often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come.

I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things.

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

God considers not the action, but the spirit of the action.

Sometimes the choices you make are good and other times it goes the other way. I take full responsibility as coach.

There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them