A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.