Common sense is the genius of mankind.

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Do not be afraid of enthusiasm. You need it. You can do nothing effectively without it.

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

Nothing falsifies history more than logic.

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

Life is uncertain.Today you get a rose.Tomorrow you feel the thorns.But the end result is red, always!!

When you hate something, you chain yourself to it.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.

Fine. Everybody wears seatbelts. No radio. No distractions.” Ben shot Hi a stern look. “No running commentary.” “Your loss,” Hi said. “To the pimp ride!

But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.

The dream is damned and dreamer too if dreaming's all that dreamers do.

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.