There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their 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.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

It's so mental how I looked in the '90s. The fact that I thought my ponytail was a good thing - it was just terrible. Cutting it off was so monumental.

You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world

If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.

It's extraordinary these obsessions. You conquer one but then you move onto another.

The question is -- Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.

Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.