One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

I think more dating stuff is scheduling. It's needing people who understand your work schedule.

accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.

I have paid as much as $300 a night to throw up into a sink shaped like a seashell.

Enjoy the moment and appreciate what you have.

Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

In a way, “failure” is just another word for “the journey,” for not being there yet but on the way. It’s the road we walk on to get wherever it is we’re trying to go.

Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking in front of you whose thighs you could hit a golf ball through, and maybe that makes you depressed.

People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.