We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

So forgive and forget the past baggage of life to refresh your life.

Treasure the journey, BE the destination.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

I would have loved to do romantic comedies. That's what I think I would be best at.

I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.

In 2002, a lot of the pundits didn't get the off-year elections right. In 2004, a lot of people thought I was going down eight days before the election.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Maybe I bring people into that pop world who don't usually find themselves there because there's not enough stuff for them to get excited about otherwise.

Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps.

When you wake up in the morning, smile - and get it over with.