Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

you don't need to have the biggest title to do the best job.

Literature is my utopia.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

If you like your existing plan you get to keep it

Life is what you make it.

He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.

A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

I'm from Texas, we fry everything.

Love trumps everything. Love's decision will not always be kind to your artistic life.