"I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise."

"I die really well, by the way. It's one of my strong points. I just take a bullet well."

"I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently."

"My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it."

"It's those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it's a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses."

"I'm sure they're saddened by me, and I get frustrated with them. But I love them, and at the end of the day if they need me or if they need anything, I'm there for them. Family."

"Depression is not interesting to watch."

"I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion."

"To be in love with someone and be raising a family with someone and want to make that commitment and not be able to is ludicrous, just ludicrous."

"There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade."

"There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men."

"There is nothing men are so generous of as advice."

"They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones."

"Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them."

"Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance."

"Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected."

"Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude."

"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."

"We always get bored with those whom we bore."

"We always love those that admire us, but we do not always love those we admire."

"We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire."

"We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes."

"We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude."

"We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine."

"We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be."

"We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves."

"We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others."

"We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others."

"We are very far from always knowing our own wishes."

"We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years."

"We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves."

"We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves."

"We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own."

"We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us."

"We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do."

"We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy."

"We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones."

"We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears."

"We say little, when vanity does not make us speak."

"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as we are in a condition to render them service."

"We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us."

"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."

"We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them."

"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

"What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them."

"What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes."

"A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice."