Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'

The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part.

It's a real man who can go out with a woman who's taller than he is. That's an alpha male right there.

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.

I just want to be happy. You know what I'm saying? I just want to be happy, and I want to be able to make somebody else happy.

I am no fan of books.

I don't even know if I exist offstage.