Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

Always remember that however good you may be, the game is your master.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.

Knowledge is half the battle. The application of knowledge is the other half. (1998)

I kiss her for way too long at the door, and not for the first time, I wish that I could stay with her, to help chase those dark clouds away.

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change.

The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.

I want to find someone who's really magnetic but who isn't going to do anything bad to me. It's hard.

Sure I hear what people say. But the only opinions I care about are from the fans.

Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.

A big shot is a little shot who keeps on shootin'