Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

You can put anything into words, except your own life

Imitating others, I failed to find myself. I looked inside and discovered I only knew my name. When I stepped outside I found my real Self. ~Rumi

You may think you've hit rock bottom in your life but guess what—there's more crud underneath those rocks.

That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

Now that we can do anything what will we do?

Even if we are destroying this planet, we are playing our role perfectly.

Smile, it's easier than explaning why you're sad

Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.

My political ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian