We are often more treacherous through weakness than calculation

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

If you cannot fix the situation may be the situation is meant to fix youu

the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.

We hear of a silent generation more concerned with security than integrity with conforming than performing with imitating than creating.

My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

As a kid I said 'Bob Costas went to Syracuse, I'm going to Syracuse'

Now you have Donald Trump ready to execute policy on the basis that the Muslims are the problem, not ISIS. Oh Jesus, it's a circular firing squad.

So when you think you're the only one who can't find love in this world, tell yourself there's another one who's waiting for you somewhere.

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.

Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.