He who receives a good turn should never forget it he who does one should never remember it.

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.

Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.

To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God’s way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him.

Hope is the boat we ride to reach the shore of our desires.

Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.

I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.

Sometimes, all you need to do is pull back a little to protect your heart, not turn your back entirely.

You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.

The only time that I am really truly happy—when I feel at my best—is when I'm on the stage.

You should be allowed to be a modern city dweller and still care about the environment.

There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors.

What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?