“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents”

“The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselves”

“We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice”

“We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together”

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do”

“If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter”