Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

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.

Wanting help, I reached out to serve. Seeking happiness, I smiled and offered comfort. Yearning for love, I showed love. And now I understand. My life was never about me, it was always about you.

There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.

All I need is some cool bud and some tasty hanging change-ups, and I'm fine!

We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.

I'm always too fat. And I always look terrible. But I love the theater of the red carpet.

The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast.

The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.