Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.

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.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them

Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.

Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo

I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.

The basis of art is change in the universe.

When luck ain't with you it's against you." ~pg 92

If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.