[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

Illiteracy is the number one promoter of ignorance.

Selfishness is easy to find. Selflessness is a much rarer beast.

It's a stupid leader who can't turn follower when somebody offers him a wiser course

Start with the end in mind.

I'm just a newsboy who met a President.

Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.

I love doing sitcoms and I love performing in front of a live audience, so [Payne] was a really fun experience.

There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.

The ubiquitous term "anti-aging" has become meaningless. Women today want to look like a more revitalized version of themselves.

Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.