Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.

You will always find me behind the line of the Horizon

A few names have survived oblivion. In time, oblivion will have them all.

One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach.

Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.

I dream of one day winning a college basketball scholarship

The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.

Time is the most valuable commodity we have, worth more than gold, yet wasted more than all else. Efficient use of time begins with prayer.

I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.

One is so apt to cheapen a thing when one tries hastily to put it into words, and ever afterward it is never quite the same.

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.