Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our".

I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.

What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment that photo taken!

One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.

Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.

EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.

People like givers, people want to help givers. I get stuff all the time.

I'd seen weirder things than a haunted shoe, but not many.