I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

Every time, he breaks your hearts. And every time, he expects me to pick up the pieces.

With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?

An MBA doesn’t impress me. A GSD does. GSD = Gets Stuff Done.

I've seen Joe take on many battles, cancer being one of them, and the determination that he has, and he won't stop, he's not going to make one announcement and write one editorial and go away.

People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.

I never imagined myself doing this. Doors opened for me and I ran for it.

A village somewhere was missing it's idiot.

The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.

I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.