There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

We are walking through a field of burning bushes, of the everyday heroes God puts in our lives.

Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship.

Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.

More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and closer.

God will give you more knowledge about yourself than you could ever think to know.

It is in the long run that the corporation lives.

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.