One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

He that cannot cast off a possession has become the possessed

Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.

I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.

Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.

Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

The people I find most impressive are generally unknown at the time of their actions and forgotten in history.

Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking.

I hate the word "eclectic" .I'm a classicist, and I like comfort. Lots of books, lots of artwork, pieces of family furniture, and newer upholstery.