How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?

The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.

I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.

I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

No one will do it for you.

Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

So little time, so little to do.

The cocktail party is a device for paying off obligations to people you don't want to invite for dinner.

To make a million, start with $900,000.

We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.

Lindsay Lohan fell in love while in rehab. Who wouldn’t? You share meals together, gaze into each other’s eyes, talk about your feelings and share one romantic sunset after another—for roughly $50,000 a month. Pretty pricey, considering a month of eHarmony.com is only $21.

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty --the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that’s too bad.

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

I believe in being an innovator.

In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

Don't forget to love yourself.

The more you love, the more you can love — and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.

We are what we love, not what loves us.

I have loved many, the more and the few - I have loved many that I might love you.