Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

Each time, at the end of the day, we know it well: If we do not have love we would be nothing.

We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you...out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally.

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

Hillary Clinton is a very dishonest person.

I have a little brother. He's actually living at my house right now. He's going to be 18.

I try to write the most embarrassing thing I can think of.

But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.

I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it and have it work as perfectly as it did... I sleep clearly every night.