Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.

A friend won't always be there, at times you are on your own, but alone you still may find light.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

I do not exchange my shirt with ASSASSINS

You have psychopaths and sociopaths in charge.

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.