The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Happiness is a perception of the mind that comes from forgiveness and love.

One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.

I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school

The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.

One of my friends went on a murder weekend, now he is doing life for it.

I think luck is a big part of people who are successful in L.A.

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.