It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.
Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
I just don't like to be in my own - I'm already myself, so I don't like to be in my own - like, watch myself.
I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.