Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed.

Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

There's nothing I'd really rather do, or can do, except cook.

People overthink flowers. They are afraid to mix and match, so they don't do anything!

I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.

I want to be remembered as one who tried.

I am fearless when I think I'm alone.

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.