If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Time is money.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

Existence is where the soul goes to learn how to interpret itself again.

Dare to think. You can expand your world by thinking and expanding happiness.

I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.... If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart...Best advice I can ever give you.

He has a sellsword's conscience, she realized then. That is to say none at all.

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.

Nick Offerman is my hero. He just cracks me up. He's so funny, but he's a true actor, too - he's bringing so much when he's onscreen.

You can't give if your cup of inspiration isn't full.

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.