The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents.

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.