If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

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.

Obedience is the master key to effectual prayer.

Those who seek enjoyment in life are the ones that think that the world is a playground.

Loyalty and communication are always rewarded in sports.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

I can't take this any more, I'm out of here - on leaving Hell's Kitchen

If you don't give trust to others, it's because you haven't earned it. If you don't have trust form others, it's because YOU haven't earned it.

I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'

White means the strength of fragility and the fragility of the passage of time.

I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.

People go into things for the wrong reasons.