Jealousy is the paralysis of love.

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.

The only condition that miracles will come is after you have done your best.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

He had become a monster. You just couldn't see it...because it wore the face of a friend.

It was not Iraq that knocked down the World Trade Centre.

Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.

Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.

Potter! There are hundreds of people thundering through my pub!

The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.

Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and you will have to pay it.

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.