Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

My paranoia wasn't always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown in the room.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.

Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check in.

God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.

The fanatic is dangerous.

I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.

You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.