We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.

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.

We are all capable of loving.

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

It will bring you light even among the darkest shadows of this world and others

A relationship cannot survive the test of time without trust.

We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.

The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.

Yes, if you're looking for infinity, just close your eyes!

People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

Hate comes from Intimidation. Love comes from Appreciation.