He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever

The best practice is to be around people who absolutely disagree. Grace in conflict is a study in love.

Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.

So often we search out the impossible and then throw ourselves into trying to do it.

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

I don't know the difference between a warm color and a cool one.

My focus is on a ring, and giving the best individual performance I can.

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Nicole was always there with her door open, her arms open, her ears open - just what you need.

There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.