Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

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.

In statesmanship get formalities right never mind about the moralities.

We're just inviting adventure into our life, and adventure carries a little baggage.

I want to go to Australia so bad, do comedy there, and see the people there. It's a great country. I have friends that are Australian that have told me all about it. I want to do comedy there.

We are not here to just exist; but to find the strength to co-exist.

Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

If you are in a state of mind in which all things are one, then you can spend your time in lingerie shops.

'Beloved.' That's an amazing film and I'm sorry more people didn't see it when it came out.

Being a perfectionist is not an evil thing.

Through service to others, we develop a Christlike love and we experience joy. Service teaches patience and long-suffering as well as gentleness, goodness, and faith.