Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

The thing I fear most is fear.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Success seems to be largely a matterof hanging on after others have let go.

We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present.

A true friend is like an umbrella that opens her heart to protect you on those rainy days.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

I would not ask anyone to vote for me based on my last name. I am certainly not campaigning to be president because my last name is Clinton.

Customer will create most value for you at point he thinks you're creating most value for him.

Don't say 'No,' say 'Gilbert,' ladies and gentlemen.

Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since.

Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.

People feel personally slighted if you don't respond to them in 30 seconds and treat email as instant messenger.