Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.

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.

Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything.

I'm often wrong but never in doubt.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.

I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear

We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.

Greatness breaks laws.

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

Don't worry that you can't seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You'll get better and better.

It's like deja-vu, all over again.