The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Religion was all about getting dumbasses to line up and sign up, making people pay today for heaven tomorrow.

When the conflict deepens, none will have peace either.

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it.... If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there.

Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about

So people have been hurting, and I understand that, and it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me we'd be in a worldwide depression.

I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

Creativity means enjoying any work as meditation; doing any work with deep love.

Sometimes I like to vent.