What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.

A timid person is frightened before a danger a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards.

The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)

It is easy to flatter it is harder to praise.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.

God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depths of the soul.

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

There is beauty in thinking independently.

How would we get corporate sponsorship if we were just a bunch of thugs?

The breaks you take from work pay you back manifold when you return because you come back with a fresher mind and newer thinking. Some of your best ideas come when you're on vacation.

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?

In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.

As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.

Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created.

Life is full of all sorts of people. You just need to know which hands to shake, which hands to hold and which hands to let go.