There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety.

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.

For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.

The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!

Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.

We have so much to learn from a fallen teardrop which is wiped away from our cheek…never to be felt again

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.

A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.

Guys who are unavailable are actually a dream come true for me because I'm unavailable all the time. It's great they're not down your throat.

A car is a big thing for anyone going into adulthood, it's a big seminal moment.

The U.S. is, to a very unusual extent, a business-run society.

So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.

If there is a good will, there is great way.