Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.

There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.

Life is so fleeting. I am so busy enjoying it that I have no time to get angry.

Most people just ‘hope’ to meet their targets, while few have clear and strong intention hence they achieve it.

A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.

Every few years, I change my look for the simple reason that I get bored. If you Google Image me, you will see so many different looks: long hair, short hair, clean shaven, beard, etc.

Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

When you're in love, love makes you do crazy things, and can take you down a whirlwind of a road.

Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.