Loudness is impotence.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

Sensibility is the power of woman.

A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.

Go after your dreams confidently.Go after your aspirations positively.Go after your goals expectantly.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

I doubt anybody would have pushed me [on the music]. When I was at Sony nobody ever gave me any creative suggestions on the music.

Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils.

Once in a while it can be a bit disconcerting to be so recognisable.

People all the time say, oh, if you only knew Hillary Clinton the way I know Hillary Clinton.

Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.

As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, "Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!"