Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.

Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us.

We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.

The first rule for speaking well is to think well.

Politeness costs little and yields much.

One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

Would you be esteemed? Live with persons that are estimable.

We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.

The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.

Systems and processes will always surpass motivation.

But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.

I think what - I think what the American people is looking for is they are looking for moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of passivity or confusion.

As a designer and someone that likes getting my hands dirty, it's hard. It's a competition. I can't give too much away. One thing I could do was offer encouraging words.

Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil All offices of death, except to kill.

Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.

I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.

After I became confident in Him it didn't matter what anyone said because I was confident in something and someone way bigger than myself.