Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to do.

I find a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have bread.

We will make La Perla a great international brand for beauty and feminine luxury.