To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says:"Leave no stone unturned.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'

Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

A continuing conversation with other persons, with cultural products, and with oneself, is a large part of what it means to be a human being, in our time and perhaps in all time.

If the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong.

I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.

There's something about breaking up with someone - you just look hotter than you ever did before.

I'd like to be wanted for my body, too! As an actor I want to play all different kinds of women - independent women but also very vulnerable women.

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.