“Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.”

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Trouble’s made us kin.

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.

If you have a good script, that’s what gets you involved. It’s harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.

Carbon is probably a bit harder to wrap since it’s procedural.

Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.

Greed never allows you to think you have enough; it always destroys you by making you strive ever harder for more.

Don’t work harder than your competition, be your own competition.

I bet the pill is harder to get than drugs–which shows how screwed up this world really is!

It’s even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience.