A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

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.

I studied how to use the clothes washer. The handy instructions on the lid helped

Life is beautifully tragic. Giving it up isn't the hard part

You just can't let the outside world affect your game.You can't hold anything back. You can't play a different game.

No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.

To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.'

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.'

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

Don't fear change. It's always for the best.