Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

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.

Announcing the intended arrival of some people is kind of like issuing a hurricane warning.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion I think it must be gratitude.

I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

If your goal isn't scary and exciting, then it's not a big enough goal for you.

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

Could you get O positive this time? That's my favorite.

Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy.

I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face.