We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.

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.

Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out …

I'm on the Internet. I stay informed. They let old people on the Internet, you know.

The average woman would not be pondering how fast her date could kill her, but I’ll never be an average woman.

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged just so.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

You should never ask actors about politics.

Leading by fear is a lot of companies' approach, and a horrible way for people to exist in their lives, when most of your life is spent at work.

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.

FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society.