Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Dancing is my daily exercise.

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

The life we receive is not always what we choose.

I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

I'm almost a full-time mom.

I started reading Hunter S. Thompson when I was in college.

It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.

A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.