Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.

No man knows himself as an original.

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Science teaches to think but love teaches to smile.

Desperate courage makes One a majority.

Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.

I'm from Hope, Arkansas, you may have heard of it. All I'm asking is, give us one more chance.

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

That win means so much. They got back into the game but I think we showed today that we want to go to the wire. We want to go all the way.

I could lose myself forever in that dark hair and those sweet love handles.

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.