When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture.

There's great food everywhere, and even McDonald's uses nice wood now.

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

Our greatest resource is the human resource.

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.

Ingenuity and incongruity always cheer me up.