What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.

Every time someone opens up to me, it just feels like a gift they're giving me, because it's a chance to experience another human being.

I definitely don't plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.

Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

Each fragrance bottle and name captured a moment in time perfectly.

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.

I grew up in New York.