She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

Sensibility is the power of woman.

Republicans are going to have to come to the conclusion that there's a political price for standing against 90 percent of their constituents to stand with the gun lobby.

I dont fully understand my wifes emotions - and Im supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff.

1994 was the nadir for heavy metal, although the rest of the '90s weren't much of a picnic either.

I'm not mad at anybody. I'm not being forced out. It is what it is. I have no reason to lie.

I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.

Somebody approached me about writing a biography on me, I told them they were too late.

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.