The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

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 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.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

It's much easier to wear your pain on the outside...

I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.

A wild thing may say wild things.

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.

It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.

People get work done, not buildings, not staffs in a generic sense, and not plans, but people

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do

I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world.

If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment.