Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

After I read a good book, I have a hard time coping with reality.

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that's what you're feeling?

I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.

[Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.

President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.

The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.