People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me

Producers problems is in need of vocalist and Vocalist problems is in need of a Studio.

In order to compete with God for the dominion of the world, Satan, whom Christ called “the prince of this world, ” was forced to go into the “religion” business.

A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive tolerate the unpleasant cope with the unexpected and smile through the unbearable.

We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it.

There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.

The proof of the pudding is the eating.

I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.

Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present.