As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

A lot of my friends and the people I mingle with, they not famous. They don't got half of what I got. For me, what that do is, it keeps me humble. It keeps me grateful and appreciative of what I got.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.