Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.

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.

Have fun life is better that way.

With faith, I love without any fear.

I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality.

Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.

and just like that, I shut off the switch to my brain.

I lead by example. But if I get pissed enough, I'll say something. It usually isn't rah-rah; it's more complaining.

Donald Trump hasn't decided, and most importantly, we don't know if the old rules still apply.

If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.