It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.

I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer.

I'm one of those people who sees Frank Zappa in a cup of coffee, or elephants wrestling in clouds. But also, conscious creation of all kinds moves me.

A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy.

Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

I think the challenge is to takedifficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow.

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

I got hit twice in the face, and that was not fun.