Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

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.

Do not judge my success by the destination I reached but the distance I traveled.

So I take my lover, my king, and I put him in a pedestal and I cut him down. A man, like the ones who ruined the world.

whoever has grown without a mother has missed half of his/her lifetime

What's Princeton doing today?

Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

TV's not the same buzz. If someone tells you three million people watched the show last week, that's good but, when you walk out in front of 1,000, you think, 'Oh my God, this had better be good'.

I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children.

Honesty is the biggest thing I admire, respect, and look for. And it's something that's kind of disappearing in some people nowadays.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.