To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.

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.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

If you haven't fall in love yet...you haven't experienced true pain and happiness.

Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life talking about when I used to drink or when I used to take drugs. I'm more interested in the future.

Despite the knowledge that her affections were unattainable, I couldn't help but be drawn to try.

We wait, all, for a story of us that shall reach to where we are. We listen for our own speaking; and we hear much that seems our speaking, yet makes us strange to ourselves.

There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.

Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

Politics is too important to be left to politicians.