Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

It will take time to restore chaos

A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.

The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.

Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.' 'No.' 'It might be important.' 'It might make her die.

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.

Every man has a feminine side, and every woman a masculine side. It is important to use discipline with intuition, and to use intuition with objectivity.

It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.