Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

There is no accounting for tastes.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

Allow yourself to see the good in people. Not every sinister face harbors a wicked heart.

Sherrie would be there, and the last time I’d seen her at a social event she burst into tears when she saw me and ran out of the room. You’re upset, I’d yelled after her, meanly.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around seven or eight when I started writing my own chords and putting words together.

It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.

I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.

I literally hate working out.

I've assimilated the hit. I've passed along most of what I can and now I'm prepared to live with it. But in my opinion, prices will come down.