The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.

The truly astounding thing is the Baathist regime supports poetry like nobody else, probably in the world.

Alice: I simply must get through! Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible. Alice: You mean impossible? Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible.

We don't vogue, we are 'Vogue'.

So, that is my final lesson from the universe - you just do what you need to do, and stay on track.

By 'Love' people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him.

I've never believed anyone could put more pressure on me than I put on myself. People expect great things from me. I expect great things from myself.