Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.

Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.

Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship.

I just got back from New York. You ever been there? There was a big gay parade going on there when I was there, and I never been to one of them, and I like a parade. I always like a parade. So, I go there, and it turns out, it's just a bunch of gay guys.

The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.

Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.