The idle always have a mind to do something.

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.

A comfortable and easy life leaves no room for growth. We must therefore embrace our hardships and the lessons they bring.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

I need a little criticism while I make a record so that I kind of feel like: okay, I know that I'm doing the best that I can do because someone is actually here challenging it.

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

My motivation to keep hiking was rooted in the magnificent details of the Appalachian Mountains, and the more I poured myself out - the more energy I gave the trail - the more it gave me in return.

I just want to thank [my wife] for loving me where I was weak.

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet.