Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

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.

Where are they, the American fiction writers whose works are interested in the question “What do these people have to do with us?” and “What are we doing out there in the world?

Are we star-crossed?" I asked quietly, a whisper."Yes, " he said. "But I would fight against the stars for you.

It's who I am I don't have to try hard

It's a shame, she had me convinced that she could've been a dime. I guess I lost another one to the wintertime.

The first and last frosts are the worst.

I always get sort of an image of what the character is gonna look like and then I kind of go with it.

Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.

You just have to be strong if you're a black woman.

I think phone cases will always be novelties, but there's always so many interesting phone cases I like phone cases and I think the sillier the better - but this is a cool take on it.

Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.