Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

You are human, you will make mistakes, and it’s one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

In case of doubt decide in favor of what is correct.

I was playing it like Willie Wilson but I forgot that I'm in Clint Hurdle's body.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

The fact is, almost everything Hillary Clinton's done in foreign policy has been a mistake and it's been a disaster.

The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.

Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.

Throwing away Zen mind is correct Zen mind. Only keep the question, 'What is the best way of helping other people?'