An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.

Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

Our competence comes from God's grace.

Try not to be like those who ignore the people that make them their priorities, but would never hesitate to chase those who don't have them in theirs.

So many teachers teach us but we shall always remember certain teachers

I still believe in a place called Hope.

To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.

It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it.

I have to learn more in order to preserve my body.

I think dancing is one of the best things anyone can do for themselves. And it doesn't cost anything.

A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.

To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.