Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

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.

Pride grants you a happily never after.

My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, and loving in order to find and feel the deepest joy of life.

You can't teach kindness with a whip, Janus.

Woman will always continue to be a cute riddle or a beautiful puzzle, in the meantime man believes that he solves it.

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.

I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.

If ur going to have a war on drugs, have them against ALL drugs, including alcohol, the number one offender.

Divas are not made, they are born.

If everything is important, then nothing is.

I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.