Half of wisdom is love and friendship with people.(the other half is to guard yourself against the evils of people)

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

Out of the night that covers me Black as the Pit from pole to pole I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

"Our experience of the world is being impoverished to the extent that it is being rendered artificial and prepackaged."

Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time.

I'm going to be pitching Andy Cohen on a new show for Bravo. We can call it 'Project Pantsuit.'

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

I believe that the mind powers the body, and once the mind says we want to do it, then the body will follow.

No action can be performed successfully without a clear result in view.

If the police believed that they were planning any form of resistance against the state, then you were just gone. Nobody knew where you were, and you just hoped to see that family member again.

In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month's paycheck.