Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

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.

If I lived a million lives, I would've felt a million feelings and I still would've fallen a million times for you.

Before you diagnose any sickness, make sure there is no sickness in the mind or heart. For the emotions in a man's moon or sun, can point to the sickness in any one of his other parts.

Sow the right words! Think the good thought.

Nothing is better than music.... It has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Only the children know what they are looking for.

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

I never exploited my father’s role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps...