All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

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.

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretation of his life and struggles.

The thing about the sun… is that it’s always there. Like sometimes, you can’t see it, but it never really goes away.

I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder

If I see a door comin' my way I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door I'm sliding through the window.

I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

I tried to always include my children in everything that I did. I traveled with them, I brought them with me to work, I tried to balance it between work and being a mother as best as I could.

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.