If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

I have nothing to make me feel good, except for you. The last thing I want to do is turn you into my new drug of choice.

Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

So you interrupted my date to make fun of me for still living with my parents. Couldn't you have done that on a night I didn't have a date? That's most nights, in case you're curious.

Rich people invest money and poor people spend it.

Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.

Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly.

If you think you are going to win, you'll lose. Moreover, if you think you are going to lose, you'll lose.

Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.