It is easier to say new things than to reconcile those which have already been said.

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.

Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

Trust isn't something that's spoken and love's never wrong when it's real.

Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began.

There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.

Rights give rise to legal claims. Ultimately, the more rights animals are granted, the greater the legal lien exercised on their behalf against the liberty and property of people.

I look at my hands and go, 'Hmm...what happened? Whose hands are those? Oh my God, they're mine'