Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Walking down the path of dreams, inner-self and listening to your heart are all different names given to your hidden scripts.

I am consumed by love.

Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one.

Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.

When we're focused on what we want, things begin to slot perfectly into place.

I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.