Courage is adversity's lamp.

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.

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.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

Have you paused to consider that there is no way out? Each way out of one situation necessarily being the way into another situation.

There is no life without struggle.

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

I know someone young whose husband left her for another woman. He later came back and wanted to rekindle the relationship. It was too late. His ex-wife had found someone else. Good for her.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

I think it's almost better to start [acting] at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now.' It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

Be an instrument, a multiplier of God's blessings.

When you look at bands like Take That, who have come back bigger than ever, you can see there will always be a market for good pop bands.