Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism.

My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's me.

I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic.

If you want a meaningful life for yourself don't ask "What can the world offer to me?" but "What can I offer to the world?

Singing is my passion and I always wanted to travel the country.

It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

I never think of myself as different from anyone else.

I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.

There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.