No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

Respect your voice. Be a voice for those who do not have a voice.

Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.

that when given the opportunity, many honest people will cheat.

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.

I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything.

By His trials, God means to purify us, to take away all our self-confidence, and our trust in each other, and bring us into implicit, humble trust in Himself.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

John Goodman isn't fat. He's in a category beyond fat. What does one call it? Whalelike.