No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself

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.

If there’s a takeaway from working here, it’s an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not if, when.

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

If you fight yourself, you will lose, and fighting leaves scares.

I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian.

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Before I did 'How I Met Your Mother,' I was not considered a comedic actress.

My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to the history of painting but also to those people who look and sound like me.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.