Hope is the best part of our riches.

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.

To escape death, she'd become death.

There are no easy paths in this life. And when troubles arise, we must face them with the same dignity as we do success.

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

First, I charge a retainer; then I charge a reminder; next I charge a refresher; and then I charge a finisher.

I love MySpace; it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.

My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing.