It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

In a major matter no details are small.

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.

Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.

Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.

Peace and happiness are powerful weapons against the Egos.

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

I had a great mother, and I'm very comfortable with that maternal element.

As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends - Dress is a table of your contents.

For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

I'm one of those strange people: I really love going to the gym.

Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky.

If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.