There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.

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

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.

If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?

It was the cowards who died many times before their death.

Success is doing what you said you would do, consistantly, with clarity, focus, ease and grace.

I have seen everything possible covered in studs and grommets. Also, what I call angry shoes: those platforms with the multiple buckles and studs. I think the polished girl is back.

The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out... and do it.

I drink in his wholeness, the soudness of his body and mind. It runs through me like the morphling they give me in the hospital, dulling the pain of the last weeks.

But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him.