The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

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.

If it’s convenient to love you, you’re lying to someone about who you are or what you need.

Children run everywhere for a reason--it's fun. Grown-ups can forget that sometimes.

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.

Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.

I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.