It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

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.

If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.

I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.

I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.

I prefer my Mexican food to have a little bit of an animal that suffered a little bit. That's some of the best food.

They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.

Never be discontent with the life you've been dealt, be discontent with the way you're living it.

Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.