The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

I could smack her, punch her in the face, but then I see what she can't hide from me. I've seen it before-the desperation, the agony, the need to find a reason to go on, and the inability to find it.

When nobody loves you, love yourself.

You only know of existence, once you rebel. You only know of life, once you die.

We are God's partners in matters of life and death.

I'm not interested until I see their execution.

When I was younger, I never laughed. I was always sour. If I look at pictures of me from the past, I never see a smile. I think it came out of my insecurity. I had a lot of complexes.

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

Up at the crank of dawn.

We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.