We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.

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.

Women are sneaky.

For him, mastery of the game world is a source of joy.

The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.

You can judge the validity of any idea or concept by asking Is this true for me?

I am Jack's smirking revenge.

With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.

Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace.

Don't compare yourself to anyone. Be happy to be the wonder unique, very special person that you are.