Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Prosperity makes few friends.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

All men are born truthful and die liars.

At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile

Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart.

The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge.

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

I think audiences deserve the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to be surprised by them rather then just assume they'll react negatively to any new idea.

Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.

I'm the kind of person who buys a new thing, wears it so much and then is totally sick of it.

If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.