It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.

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.

Always make your familial environment a safe and inviting place.

It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.

I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.

The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.

Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.

You have to keep a little bit extra fat on the body. The strength and conditioning guy is always all over me about it, but it seems to make guys bounce off me better.