Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.

Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.

We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances.

Everything around you is your life and your opportunity

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

Falling in love is like eating mushrooms, you never know if it's the real thing until it's too late.

I have a very low tolerance for animation. I'm used to the perfect integrity you get from drawing your own comics. There's something about that that animation always loses.

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

If you hate something, you hate it, and if you like something or somebody, you like it, but tell the truth. And most celebrities have that thin veneer that they will not break for you.

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.

I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.

Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.