Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

The less men think, the more they talk.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Conviction says, 'My behavior was wrong.' Satan, on the other hand, floods our hearts with shame. Shame says, 'There is something wrong with me.

When problems beat upon you like a raging storm, search for the eye. You might not be able to avoid misfortunes, but you can find the calmest spot within them.

And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

I have to make sure I exercise and that the ingredients that go into my body are completely organic.

I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.

I want to do movies but not talk about them.

I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in Morning Glory with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

New study reveals men like to cuddle. Another study reveals men will say anything to get into bed with a woman.

I know winning 20 is a special kind of thing, but I'd rather get into the playoffs, and be strong for the playoffs.