Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

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.

Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country’s well-being.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

I’m just a person, just Jay Park, but people expect me to be the best dancer or a man with the perfect personality. That’s not me.

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

You may never reach that glorious moment until you die, so live life on the edge halfway between heaven and hell...and let's all dance in the middle in purgatory.

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

[ Hosting Saturday Night Live ] paved the way for Parks And Rec and The Grinder, the Comedy Central Roast, and that whole side of my career.

Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day