If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.

Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.

The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.

That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.

I think of drug dealers like I think of my father— never really there when you want them to be.

Even the mood of a lot of people, my dad gets on me a lot because he's like people love answers but I'm more for questions, ask the right questions.

Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.

I cherish all of the times I've fallen on my face and made mistakes, because those experiences have made me who I am.

I do think that there are cultural differences in the extent to which we value having more and more choice.

They say I'm greedy, but I still want more, cause my eyes want to journey.

The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.

The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.