Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

Nothing worth anything has ever proven itself to be easy. I should think you 'd have discovered this by now.

No one realized that the pumps that delivered fuel to the emergency generators were electric.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously.

I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.

What the people out there are calling for is honesty which has been missing for quite some time now. We are tired of all the deceit and incompetence of this government.

I had to work 10 times harder. People expect so much of you, because they want to see if you can strive and stand on your own.

Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.