Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
Comedy is acting out optimism.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
Genius is sorrow's child.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.