Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.

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.

You can create any product from time

Your best - no matter how great - isnothing if you minus God from theequation.

Prayer was never meant to be magic, ' Mother said.'Then why bother with it?' Suzy scowled.'Because it's an act of love, ' Mother said.

When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.

Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.

Fear is the genesis of most of the good things that have occurred in my life. Fear is the beginning of every success I've lived.

I think with the kids I get to be a little more fun and goofy, which is kinda how I am all the time.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.