Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

Grace is the face that love wears when it meets imperfection.

I know it's a lot. But she can handle it. I'd rather ruin her with the truth than ruin her with lies.

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

If you're a fighter, you recognize a fighter.

This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.

There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.

I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.

For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know