In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

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.

As long as you stay as a good hearted person, you will keep the innocence in your face.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

I decided at the outset to invest in a fairly broad range of businesses, as I didn't want to get pigeonholed into one sector.

Desire is no light thing.

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

I reflected that for all the people you lost touch with or couldn't hold on to, life occasionally made up for it by giving you the right person at the right time.

On my show, I'm definitely the youngest one. So going from a show where everyone is over 30, to the movie, where everyone was like 20, 25, it was like summer camp.

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.