Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.

If you Have ever Fainted, You Are a stranger in the land of the dead!

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control - these three alone lead to sovereign power.

It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

I grew up listening to Nirvana, and then went through some bad 90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.

I never worked in an office in my life.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

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When there's no information and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well, let your soul be your pilot.