Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.

The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.

If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.

Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.

That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.

Everything about riding a bicycle compels you towards beauty.

I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.

When you have nothing to say, don't.

Constant prayer quickly straightens out our thoughts.

I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.

Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.

For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.

When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.