It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others

Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul.

If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.

I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization.

I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.

If you look at the sponsorship yields, Formula One - because it happens every year - generates more sponsorship money for a four-year cycle than anybody else. So it is very powerful.

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.