Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.

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.

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

I don't worry about getting tired. I try not to let it guide me as far as how much I'm going to play. I play with my heart.

Writers have superpowers.

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,And therefore let 's be merry.

Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale.

I don't see the point in being bitter.

Everything in the world finds peace - eventually.