Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.

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.

It’s not about inviting great things into our lives. Rather, it’s about accepting the invitation of great things to step out of our lives.

The difference being that people fear us. When people fear you, you have power.

I wake up to find magic, I seek dreams and I crave imagination. This is my creed.

You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.

What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.

The technology life cycle has three stages: Hype, disillusionment, and application.

Everyone has this sense of togetherness right now. For example, one guy on the subway today, he wanted to share my pants.

Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

We never had any silk sheets in our family...

and then woe is you, Pauly. Woe to the max.