"A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at."

"On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind."

"Weird doors open. People fall into things."

"To manipulate, drive or manage people is not the same thing as to lead them."

"Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs."

"It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about."

"If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce"

"One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly."

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

"Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do."

"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."

"The chief glory of every people arises from its authors."

"The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages."

"It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination."

"Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing."

"He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them."

"Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do."

"A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them."

"Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow."

"There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"Smoking. . . is a shocking thing, blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes and noses, and having the same thing done to us."

"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice."

"Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else."