Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate.

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

The scriptures are just books. It all depends on you, whether you are going to learn goodness and compassion from them, or use them to destroy your environment.

There is no such thing as inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

Growing up, all I did was play sports. I always loved music, but I never even thought I'd be on stage one day.

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.

There is nothing worse than a life filled with adversity from which nothing good ever comes.

The loving personality seeks not to control, but to nurture, not to dominate, but to empower.

The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.

Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.

Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.

My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.