If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.

Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it.

Beauty is a mute deception.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.

The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.

The secret of success is a pleasant personality with a sincere enthusiastic attitude.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.

All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too.

What would you think of a person who always wanted things from you but never offered a word of thanks in return? We can be that way with God, can't we? Let's remember to thank Him.

All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

I've done a lot of pilots. A lot of shows. You're young and you do a job just because you know someone gave you a job.

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way.