True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.

Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it.

Beauty is a mute deception.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.

The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

A man who does not doubt the courage of a woman, is a man that is subjugated by her will and allure.

To find the peace you never had you will need to do the one fearful thing that you have never done.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few

And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

As for Supernatural, I had seen many episodes and enjoyed the show before my audition.

I was way into space and planes. I had loads of model planes and rockets.