Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

Sensibility is the power of woman.

Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise.

How did I go from being the maiden in a fairy tale to a wretched old maids so quickly? It happened almost without my realizing it...

Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

I never rule anything out. I'm an entertainer. Be it presenting, singing, acting, I just do things I love.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years.

I'm obsessed with lighting. I'm constantly shopping for different lightbulbs. I love rainbow lightbulbs. And also, one should not live without dimmers. Life is all about lighting.

She who is silent everywhere finds peace.

Like I have said all along, I have the best doctor of all, and that is God. You can't argue with a guy like that.