Heaven is equally distant everywhere.

The mind longs for what it has missed.

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

The world wants to be deceived.

Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb

Women are one and all a set of vultures.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.

But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of back-breaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side.

If you can be heartless as the first man who visited the space, then there will be nothing impossibe for you to achieve.

No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.

I noticed that the snow was gone and the ground looked greener. It’s funny how the good stuff can wipe away the bad stuff so quickly.

When you get crapped on, grow a garden.

Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

It's much easier, I think, to protect communications while they're in transit at least, than it is to enforce legislation in every country in the world to say that you can't do this.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?