No path of flowers leads to glory.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

The cleanest feet in the universe are positive thoughts walking through your mind.

Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head.

When I was young, I believed God was a woman because I couldn't come up with any other explanation as to why the universe was so tidy.

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.

A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more...