Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Stop crying. You're giving archangels everywhere a bad name.

She learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You’ll soon find out how inadequate your little drop of goodness is.

There is no respect of persons with God.

Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like it, screw it.

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

The players today reflect how much the game has evolved and changed both in style and culture. [...] The game now has a wider appeal to a larger market.

Why have they been telling us women lately that we have no sense of humor -- when we are always laughing? . . . and when we're not laughing, we're smiling.

The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.

I guess the main source of stress for me is the stress I put on myself.