Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.

Integrity gains strength by use.

Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

A politician is someone who knows everything about running a campaign and nothing about running a country.

Because we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties. Who yearned for the same things all of us do--to love and be loved

Experiment has a stimulus which withers its fear.

Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition.

One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.

It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me.

I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

When I finally bought one, the Buchla was my only piece of furniture. I lived with that thing. It was my boyfriend! I thought there was something wrong with me, because I was in love with a machine