“Not everyone repeats gossip. Everyone improves upon it.”

Miracles do occur, but one has to work hard for them to happen.

A man is known by his books, his friends and the mistakes he admits.

Success is judged not by how you see yourself but by how others see you.

Since God made us originals, why stoop to be imitations.

The real-time to relax is when you’ve no time to relax.

What matters is not to add years to life but life to years.

Raise yourself from where you are. Have courage and rise high.

Love, like truth, can be shared, but not divided.

For a happy life, love the world and hate the word hate.

If you are right, go right ahead.

Equals argue – win or lose. Superiors just say it and win.

Boredom is not an illness but a symptom of an illness. Work defies boredom.

No power is as potent as the power of an idea.

Total absence of humor makes life a total drudgery.

Let your words be of velvet and your arguments of the steel.

A friend saved is a friend earned. A friend spent is a friend enjoyed.

Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won’t be talked about.

I’ve never been a big fan of gossip. Being a victim of it, I knew how much it hurt.

I went straight from high school to ‘Gossip Girl,’ and both were very structured, scheduled environments, so I never had freedom to explore and carve my own path.

Gossip is conversation about people.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.

I don’t have a negative bone in my body. That’s why I could care less about any gossip. It doesn’t interest me. I’d rather sit down and write a song.