O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

Great necessities call out great virtues.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who walk into a room and say ‘Here I am’ and those who walk into a room and say, ‘There you are.

Every experience has a pattern and sometimes it teaches us through the spirit of patience captured, that there are no coincidences in life.

There is only one thing to learn and that is how to love and how to be loved.

Master your responses to external events--don't attempt to control them.

My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.

Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.