No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.

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.

You have to teach your heart and mind how to sing together... then you'll hear the sound of your soul

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.

A master passion is the love of news.

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.

The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.

I'm falling back on what some of the standard protocols for politics are after victory. We in America do not prosecute defeated political enemies.

To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt.