If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.

Nothing is Impossible. The word "impossible" itself reads "I'm Possible"!

The word of God gives strength to my bones, power to my spirit and hope to my soul.

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.

I lose all control after two drinks of anything

Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience.

Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't designed properly?

I had always loved comedy, and acted out Steve Martin and Bill Cosby albums with my sister for my parents on road trips and stuff, and I loved to laugh and make people laugh.

The Force which has to be called down from above must be pure and quiet because there are all kinds of forces - it will not do to call them all. And one must have sincerity.