Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

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.

Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.

I don't know why they call it life, it's just a moment with memories.

I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation

Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.

The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.

You're just here for the ride. For the incredible, indescribable Maximum Ride. --Max's Voice

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits.

Whatever is newly expensive has two attributes: wonderful past returns and, in most cases, lousy future returns.

A marriage can go wrong at any time.