Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

She tips back her head and howls: Moooooown! Oh wonderful moooooowwwwwyyyn!

In reality the concept of ‘other nation’ is wrong because there is only one nation: The Human Nation!

Fall in love for as long as you can with the one who sees you when you are invisible.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved.

The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

Martha Stewart was found guilty on all charges. You know what that means, stripes are in this year.

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.