Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

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.

Growing up is childish.

They smile that smile, they bat those eyes. They steal with hello, they kill you with goodbye. They're the perfect drug. As you're walking away, you hear that sweet voice, 'Stay.

To handle the economy and services in a country like Iraq requires delegation of authority and the choice of competent people.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

I have always liked working "upstream" long before health problems hit the body.

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate

The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.

I've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better than it.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

I no longer try to be right; I choose to be happy.