Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

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.

Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.

Be careful! If the opinion of others is your gauge, then it is also your goal. If you concern yourself with what others think, then you can only go as far as others think. You're better than that!

We have ourselves to save.

The more you do speak from the heart, rather than thumping the agenda, people will listen or relate or open themselves up more.

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that.

I am so grateful for my beautiful life. I am cherished and loved. And I share my love and joy with everyone.

One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.

The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.

I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.