Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

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.

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

[My music] is opposite to fashion.

He who fears God has nothing else to fear.

If you just look at the data, you are led to believe that things are getting better, rather than worse. That's why the fall is really precipitous, once you hit the ceiling.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.

I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.

World records are only borrowed.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.