It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Do we ever get slow rain?

Only cooked time tastes well

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.

Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.