Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

We learn to create

I managed lots of clubs. I had more clubs than Jack Nicholson

From all those created in the image of God there is something to be received, and to them something to be given.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Only those return to Eternity Who on earth seek out Eternity.

Iraq war has made us overlook domestic agenda.

I'm a person that can get along with people. I like people who believe passionately in things even if they're not the things I agree with.

You have to sit with your life and feel how you hold it, and be willing for the release to happen. It will happen spontaneously, because it's already so.