If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.

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.

You must know what to do with your time if you must become great in this life. You must know what to do with your time if you must fulfill your purpose on the earth.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

Treat your friends as you do your picture and place them in their best light.

Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation.

Don't be cynical; it leads nowhere. If you work hard, and are kind, amazing things will happen to you.

When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.

A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)