Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

That which costs little is less valued.

Boards don't hit back.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.