The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.

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.

Joblessness gives you control over the product of your life

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.

It's the lifestyle of easy money, fast cars and supermodels that keep me going.

Drugs are marvelous--it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted.

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.

Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts

Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.

I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.