More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets.

The highest skill is the true judgment of values.

Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.

However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at last.

The most trying fools are the bright ones.

The unbosoming oneself to another is a kind of release to the soul, which strives to lighten its burden and find ease by throwing off the weight that lay heavy upon it.

Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it.

Nothing is given so willingly as advice.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams.

God knows what lives in me in place of me.

Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions.

He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others.

The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.

From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.

Frank Sinatra's never been handsome, but he's one of my favorite singers. Who needs looks when you have a voice and power?