The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

He said a man should always have to work hard to win a woman's heart, because when he gets it, it's worth it, and he'll never take it for granted.

You cannot carry your past without dropping your future.

My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond, ' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.

Spirituality does not have to be serious. You are spirituality. Fun laughter heal you faster than anything. Introduce fun back into your life.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

You know, I've virtually never been chatted up in my life, it's true.

The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.

You can do whatever you want to do as long as it is correct according to your conscience and heart.

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.