No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

Like Aurelia, he is a lover of humanity in all its quirks and foibles, quick to delight and slow to judge.

...it always makes me feel good about myself when I've dressed appropriately. It happens so rarely.

You can't fix stupid

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.

Whenever opportunity comes Kohli grabs it with both the hands.

When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

I look for things that no one I know, even myself, would ever come up with. If your solution is something that your friends or family might come up with, throw it away.

All women are goddesses, and it's just a matter of letting that goddess-power shine - and if you don't try to be the biggest and baddest damn goddess you can be, you are selling yourself short.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.