When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

My work makes me a better mom. It gives me a little door to step out of my parenting and bring the excitement from my day back home.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.

Don't just buy a new video game. Make one.

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

If I never had any mental health issues, there's no doubt in my mind I'd still be playing.

The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.

Chris Christie's rise in politics in New Jersey, in many ways, was built on his takedown of Charles Kushner. He got national headlines for that prosecution.

If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.