There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

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.

Whatever you set for yourself, you can achieve it.

Everyone has a monster inside

As a scientist I have come to learn that information isonly as valuable as its source.

Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

~As a mom, you have to look at how much time you're spending with your kids. There is nothing you will regret more in your life - nothing - than not being present for your children.~

If you focus on the problem, you can’t see the solution. Never focus on the problem.

I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.