Those whom we support hold us up in life.

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.

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.

Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.

The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.

According to the computer models, we do expect high winds in northern Germany to increase by one percent per decade. But this is such a weak phenomenon that we won't even notice it at first.

It's hard to have your parents not happy with you.

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.