Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

What you can become you are already.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.

In a good play, everyone is in the right.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

I don't think people know what hygienist means.

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

Failure is the mechanism of learning.

I truly think that you can't go and stalk your material, you have to leave the door open and whatever chooses you, chooses you. You can't go and wrestle it to the ground.

One time I was forced to go to the doctors because of a sports accident. Herpes.

If women ran the world, we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.

I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, This is going to be green? I want that to be my job.

Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.