Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.

Integrity gains strength by use.

Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.

I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.

My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.

Beta decay was... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

Sometimes, when a man is alone, that's all you got is your dog.

I woke up in a barnyard when I heard a farmer shout. Get away, boy, from my daughter, then a shot gun rang out.

How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?

When I'm playing somebody, their wardrobe, for me, is completely transformative. You just step into who that person is with that.