A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

There is no lighter burden nor more agreeable than a pen.

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

When I first started tweeting, I was just doing it because I was watching 'Breaking Bad' in my trailer and I was so scared by the assassinating cousins. And when people started responding to me, I realized it was like I wasn't watching it alone.

China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves.

There are plenty of examples of people who have had busy lives out there in the world, trying to do good, and written very well at the same time.

Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

Chiapas has had its problems for many centuries. The different Indian tribes that live there have always fought among themselves.

I cry all the time.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

In complexity it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

When you think about little league football, high school, and even on to college even more so, you're dealing with a lot of guys that are prideful, that think they're the best - a lot of alpha males. So, typically, you've got to have a guy that can control those guys, and, when he talks, they know he means business. He's a serious guy.

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo but to be known for a silhouette.

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.

Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

Acting wasn't what I wanted to do forever. I wanted a home, and I wanted children.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely.

Do not wait for a poem; a poem is too fast for you. Do not wait for the poem; run with the poem and then write the poem.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.