He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.
If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.
I used to build dreams about you.
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?
My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man. '
I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.
Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.