Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

To be involved in the seven spheres of life is to extend kingdom virtues

Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.

When everybody compares me to Mario Lemieux, it's an honor.

Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.

I was thinking about hitting races and stuff, but it's just, I think it's more of the era of when I was a kid and it just brings back memories. I gotta just chill and live in the past.

I get real excited when I hear my shows on the radio.

There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power

February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.

It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.