The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him.

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city, nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.

People pay to see blood, they pay to see war and that's why people are supporting my journey because I deliver every time I step in the ring.

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.

To be a man you've gotta beat the man.

You'll never change the world if you're worried about being liked.