Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work and animates a man to do his utmost.

People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.

As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

More than a phone call or likes on facebook - Leadership

A word is a small song.

Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.

Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those loopholes closed.

I know how to make money and I'll make it.

Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him.

In the 21st century, culture is power.

An album is a project with which you have to hit hard.