Conscience, the organ of feeling which dominates us and of the opinions which rule us, is presumptuous in the strong, timid in the weak and unfortunate, uneasy in the undecided.

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.

Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul.

A slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and-whip grading, a mule mentality which said, “If you don’t whip me, I won’t work.” He didn’t get whipped. He didn’t work.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes.

I don't really believe in anything special, but I respect God. I go to church sometimes, but not often.

If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I was nothing until you.

As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.

You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.