Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Be the light in every dark corner.

Appear On Your Fear, It Will Disappear

It didn't take a synthetic mind to decipher Caleb Shepperd, just a human one." ~ #1001

No one is a light unto himself, not even the sun.

INTENTIONS + ACTION = WILL

There are two things you will never be without: One is your reputation and the other is your credit rating.

My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

People don't understand what term "selling out" means. To me selling out means if I were to stop doing this and go work for McDonald's then I would sell out.

Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.