He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

If your ears are bigger than your mouth, you will go very far in life.

It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that ... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.

I recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

I'm not worried about facing the Sacramento Queens. Write it down. Take a picture. I'm not going to talk about this all year. When I get back, there's going to be trouble.

Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.