The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Everybody’s damaged. It’s just a question of how badly, and whether you’re healing or still bleeding.

A Gaint can easily fall to the level of an Ant but, an Anit can't rise to the level of a Gaint

But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.

My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I'm using little effort and getting a huge effect.

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

Hedda's Hopper attitude was 'once a Commie, always a Commie.'

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

You can't really put a time limit on how long someone will grieve.