It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

I walk the world in wonder.