Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

Be a peacemaker.

Different denotes neither bad nor good, but it certainly means not the same.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.

Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I’d just like to meet one who’s human.

I have a great family, good friends, a nice girlfriend, my own house. I have got everything how I want it to be.

You can bluff the good players, but not the bad players. Against the bad players, you have to have a hand.

Before social media, we shouted at our TV sets.

We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.

Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.