I was a full foot taller than any child my age.
When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
I believe in destiny. . . what's going to be is going to be. If I'm going to win, I'm going to win. . . I don't give a damn what the other guy shoots. I'm going to win if it's my turn.
There is no God dare wrong a worm.
I don't make a career plan. I take things the way they come.