It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

When you love someone, they deserve to know the truth

If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

So I took her back to my place and we did it doggy style, not because we planned it that way, but that's just how she passed out.

Once again we're talking to Brian Kenny, a man of many traits, a master of nothing.

The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.

Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.

The plural on anecdote is not evidence

I would never judge anyone for going anywhere for money.