We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.

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.

Flourishing is not a solo endeavor.

The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.

You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people.

I usually don't work with other people; I do the whole show myself.

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

When one is an artist, what else can he be?

If any agreement between two nations is to last, it must serve the best interests of both nations.

Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better

There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

For those that say I endanger my child: it's more likely that you will fall while walking on the sidewalk than I will while skating with my daughter.