There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

Every day is one day closer to the dirt, so you got to go hard.

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.

People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.

My theory with the auctions has been to try to make them like a party, like a social event. If people are having a good time, talking with their friends, they're much more likely to bid.

I don't shout people down. I argue people down, perhaps.

Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die.

If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with your parents commingling.