while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

The starting point toward developing an improved future is building the power to picture it.

If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching.

I went to the actual SVU precinct... and got a really good sense of what it was like.

The more developed a nation is, the more complete is the independence of the individual, and the safer the individual from encroachments by another.

I recommend that everyone in their youth be as out of shape as possible so that when you turn 40, people can go, "Wow, you look much better now."

If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.

I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!

I've been able to read people my entire life, because I've interviewed people now for 20-some-odd years. So you can read people that way.

My work is has always been very, very personal.