The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.

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.

Rather than caving in to protests, let us know who is in charge by setting boundaries.

Relationships take work. It isn’t true love if things go smoothly.

One will never get any more than he thinks he can get. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. Look back and see your progress - damn the torpedo, full speed ahead!

They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.

I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house.

We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.

To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.