What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

The art is long, life is short.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

In karting, in the European races, you have the cameras and the film crews and you do interviews. At around 13 I’d already started doing bit of media and it just increases more and more with every level you take, especially when you get into cars – and when you hit F1 it’s an even higher step up. It’s something you get used to over time.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Who, being loved, is poor?

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.