By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

...But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.

My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Link Wray and Gene Vincent.... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll.

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do

I'm totally crazy, I know that.

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?

If you believe that what you’re doing will have positive results, it will— even if it’s not immediately obvious.

Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.