Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?

I didn't leave the Republican Party. It left me.

To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word.

Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

I believe that challenges can push us beyond what we might otherwise be able to accomplish.

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

One individual who lives and vibrates to the energy of pure love and reverence for all of life will counterbalance the negativity of 750,000 individuals who calibrate at the lower weakening levels.