Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Leadership is about stepping up when it's the appropriate time and then making sure everyone knows that we're all on the same page.

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

And love is love, in beggars and in kings.

To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it can be a better place to live in.

In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]

A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs.

We in this country have to make up our minds -- -- we can not have it both ways: we cannot be both drug-free and free.

I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.