Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time.

Organizational culture begins in HR. This means to hire for attitude and train for skill.

Milestones aren't what I think about much.

I think that the process of making a film is an underrated factor in how that film turns out.

I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for.

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.

Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.