Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

I had a dream that I was in someone else’s shoes for once…they were the wrong size.

Listening and showing you are there for someone is often more important than trying to find a "fix" for a problem. I wish there were more people who practice this.

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Because I grew up in McAllen, we would watch Televisa a lot.

I get older I get more cantankerous, but June [Hillary] gets a bit more cantankerous, too.

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

I'm Not a Gynecologist, but I'll take a Look.

She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past.

It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.