Those who fear men like laws.

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.

They'll take everything, even your tears.

The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.

I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.

We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner goodness is to be a little bit smaller about yourself.

Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.

It's very important to older male homosexuality in Los Angeles to have a pool, so that cute boys will come to your house and swim around in the pool.

All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent.

Fall forward, in your failing, and rise up with a soul on fire!