Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

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.

You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks.

Men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely.

We can't in any way criticize or at least indict or impeach administration [of Democratic presidents] for doing what they did.

I think even when I was little there was signs that I was an artist. I've always been an artist.

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

I'm not trying to plant the seed that I'm the most fashionable NBA guy - of course, I think that in my own mind.

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.

In London, I really like going to the Mandarin Oriental. They can even do my feet without tickling me.

If you’re a man at night, you’ve got to be a man in the morning.

A cat can be social, but a dog, we've bred this hyper social animal that's really truly different and will do stuff for us just to please us with praise and stroking.