If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

We're going balls to the wall, guys. Our sneak-and-peak just turned into a hostage rescue

virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.

I brought a knife to the gunfight. I am the knife. I am all blade.

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.

My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.

Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.