If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

In a major matter no details are small.

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.

Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.

Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.

It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

There is a thin line between confidence, and arrogance. Sadly those people who have no confidence often confuse the two when confronted with a person who possesses belief in themselves.

... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.

We rarely recognize the extent to which human happiness requires struggle.

I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.

It's what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid.

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.

If I were dead, I would be the last to know.

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.