One thought cannot awake without awakening others.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined

They never understood what Harry Potter was about. Or maybe they didn't want to understand.

Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.

Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.

I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.

whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best.

Every time you make a movie you have to confront your fears.