In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

Could a father not marry his son?

To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing.

You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.

If you could call the thing a horse. If it hadn't shown a flash of speed in the straight, it would have got mixed up with the next race.

I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.