No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Humans do not create, we pro-create from that which The Creator has already created.

Sometimes by not knowing the truth we make incorrect judgments about situations

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.

I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.

I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.

Herbalife has been a part of the most challenging expeditions that I've done and the products have become a really critical and ongoing part my diet.