Reason deceives us more often than does nature.

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.

Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power.

I have no time to Cry because my Focus is to Fly in the Sky!

The best direction is the least possible direction.

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.

I have a definition of success.

You are a little band of awareness and your awareness moves from one state of mind to another.

Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.

There is no such thing as an unsolvable problem.

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

It is worth emphasizing that Iran released our hostages in 1981 the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office.