Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen perficienda doctrina est.]

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth...

Always smile, make everyone happy, It can change the way a day is going, even deep in your heart you are sad .

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

Fame is drag. The paparazzi culture is more pervasive than it used to be. On the positive side, it’s nice not to have to worry about bills.

If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?

I don't like karaoke very much. I like being around it, but I don't like singing it. If I had to sing a karaoke song, it's usually "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield.

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?