Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away true knowledge remains forever.

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.

Man is not made better by being degraded.

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

But the truth is the highest consideration.

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

It is impossible for one to become happy in life, if one keeps holding on to the thoughts and beliefs that caused one's misery in the first place.

A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.

Scientists have theorized that when Earth comes to its final days, the only life left on the planet would be in the form of microbes.

Abundance flows into my life in surprising and miraculous ways every day.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

It's easier to do comedy with an audience, because their reactions tell you whether or not what your saying qualifies as comedy.

The only way to isolate specific back muscles - whether it is upper. or lower back - or make any progress is through the power of the mind-muscle connection.

We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.

It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.

Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.