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

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

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

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

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.

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

...silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.

There are fascinating possibilities in this situation. I'd get it down on paper if I were you.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?'

I'm not as good as I want to be, But I'm twice as good as you think I am.

Dance to the light that is your soul.

You know, I'm allowed to f--king date, I haven't seen this guy in three years. We're in the middle of a divorce. For a woman, she has to wait. For a man, who cares? That's what it's painted as.

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!