to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

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.

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.

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

Crisis is a good revealer of great leadership

We can use economic instruments to help realize our goals but economics does not tell us what our goals should be.

I don't like being treated differently.

Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.

In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.

I do not believe that the majority of men in the world would like to hurt women, but they can be very complacent, and that is just as bad.

The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.

I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.