In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

A word too much always defeats its purpose.

Arthur Schopenhauer

People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don´t even notice anymore...

Alex Flinn

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Jane Austen

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

James F. Cooper

To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly.

William Samuel Johnson

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

Charles Keating

I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the universe.

Albert Einstein

Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.

Poul Anderson

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

Bob Newhart

What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

Eva Gabor

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

G. K. Chesterton