I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter

To see beauty, you have to love.

Life did not take over the world by combat, but by networking.

I feel like knowledge is power: If you know how to take care of yourself, you can be a better version of yourself.

[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.

[...] the only folks who kill black folks any more are black folks. [...] black folks kill more black folks than the KKK ever did.

I hate that word 'hate' - it should be banned.

You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.

The fans appreciate the success the young guys are having now because they know the game is clean, that they've finally got rid of all the performance-enhancing drug issues.

All your behavior results from the thoughts that precede it.