Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.

To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

The shortest follies are the best.

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

Hurt? He'll never be hurt–he's made to other people.

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!

I know I can still play, but it's like I told my wife, I'm just tired mentally. I'm just tired.

Jesus Christ-" "Is Not here right now," the man in black replied,"and even if he were, he could not save you.

Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.

Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.

The Republicans are looking at a country that is going to be a majority minority country in just over a generation. And they are an increasingly white party.

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.