The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.

No man knows himself as an original.

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off.

Celebrating Culture is celebrating existence.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

I do all my own stunts!

The message we have internalized is clear - we are what we do and what we own, not what we are inside ourselves. Where it counts!

I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed.

Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

I cleaned the attic with the wife the other day. Now I can't get the cobwebs out of her hair.