The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

What would it be like to hold a different girl?

It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

Instead of bringing it back and putting the money to work, because they can't work out a deal to - and everybody agrees it should be brought back.

If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

I like to remind myself that everything is meaningless.