Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Like I'm on the verge of just blowing up. All the stress and pressure and anxiety just bubbling up.

He would wake up knowing that as long as he was capable of having such beautiful dreams, a part of him must still be good.

When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.

Realise that your dreams of financial independence have already come true on the mental plane, by the time you desire them or become aware of them.

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.

I enjoy going back to work now because cinema is going through an exciting period because young people are now going back to the movie theaters. But things are different though.

I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.

Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

Sometimes doing nothing is doing something.