Conservar algo que possa recordar-te seria admitir que eu pudesse esquecer-te.

Quem cedo e bem aprende, tarde ou nunca esquece. Quem negligencia as manifestações de amizade, acaba por perder esse sentimento.

Sabemos o que somos, mas não sabemos o que poderemos ser.

Chorar sobre as desgraças passadas é a maneira mais segura de atrair outras.

Seja como for o que penses, creio que é melhor dizê-lo com boas palavras.

Quem me rouba a honra priva-me daquilo que não o enriquece e faz-me verdadeiramente pobre.

O amor não se vê com os olhos mas com o coração.

Aquele que gosta de ser adulado é digno do adulador.

O sábio não se senta para lamentar-se, mas se põe alegremente em sua tarefa de consertar o dano feito.

Todo mundo é capaz de dominar uma dor, exceto quem a sente.

O que não dá prazer não dá proveito. Em resumo, senhor, estude apenas o que lhe agradar.

Em nossas loucas tentativas, renunciamos ao que somos pelo que esperamos ser.

O mal da grandeza é quando ela separa a consciência do poder.

O louco, o amoroso e o poeta estão recheados de imaginação.

A alegria evita mil males e prolonga a vida.

É mais fácil obter o que se deseja com um sorriso do que à ponta da espada.

Os homens deviam ser o que parecem ou, pelo menos, não parecerem o que não são.

A suspeita sempre persegue a consciência culpada; o ladrão vê em cada sombra um policia.

Aceita o conselho dos outros, mas nunca desistas da tua própria opinião.

Quando fala o amor, a voz de todos os deuses deixa o céu embriagado de harmonia.

No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.

I would say anything is possible on 'Jane the Virgin.'

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

People into hard sciences, neurophysiology, often ignore a core philosophical question: 'What is the relationship between our unique, inner experience of conscious awareness and material substance?' The answer is: We don't know, and some people are so terrified to say, 'I don't know.'

So much of artistic creation is just exclusion. It's not creating things; it's just excluding things that really aren't going to be helpful.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

I have a reputation for drinking a lot. Indeed, I drink quite much. However, I give it up when I wish to do so. I never, ever drink while on duty. The drinking is only for my pleasure. I do not remember neglecting my duties because of drinking even once.

My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?'

If I feel like someone's trying to bring me down, I just walk away from it.

I've met people with my prints tattooed on them, my face tattooed on them - I have that commitment and love.

The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from?

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.

I feel like when I carry a bigger bag, it looks like it's a huge bag because I'm really tiny. But I do think it's important to have the space that you need, because we throw everything in our bags at all times. I think every woman does.

Destruction hence like creation is one of Natures mandates.

Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.

Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.