There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.
The score never interested me, only the game.
All emotion is involuntary when genuine
I am prepared for the worst but hope for the best.
Love reduces the complexity of living.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
When you don’t understand something, you often laugh.
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
The more he fears, the more he'll hate.
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence.
It matters if you just don't give up.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
“What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.”
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.