All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.

That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

The best enjoyment is half disappointment to what we intend or would have in this world.

What strange perversity is it that induces a man to set his heart on doing those things which he has not succeeded in and makes him slight those in which his achievement has been respectable.

In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small matters as they are.

Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Evaluations, in essence, are... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.

The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.

Christians are those who let God clothe them with goodness and mercy, with Christ, so as to become, like Christ, servants of God and others.

I'm not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It's strictly my taste. But there is a connection between everything I play and the sets I put together.

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.