Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

...what distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it.

I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.

I'm also a devoted father, and you see that side of me at the same time.

Texas senator and tea party favorite Ted Cruz announced he's running for president. He pledged to lead America boldly forward into the 1950s.

I would love to try to win another game. Obviously, it's more fun when you win. I'd rather try and not win than not try at all.

I think sometimes to still be angry is appropriate, but you want to be able to live with it.

When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.

If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.

Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe.

Frankly, I like new things. I feel like I made a contribution to building a more interactive world. And I'm proud of that.