Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

Mass production keeps the world divided between consumer and producer. Demassification of production may hasten the speed towards an era of prosumers.

I don't want to be linked to anything negative. I don't want negative energy. I want everything positive around me.

I'm always asked, 'What's the secret to success?' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

I think it's very important, even if you're not in organized sports, but just to be active, to be healthy.

I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me.

Did you think that I forgot you? Did you think I'm going away? Did you feel like I was don't care for you? No. I am here to stay.

We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!!

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.