We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

It's highly important to always bear in mind that continuous negative thoughts and belief can unquestionably reverse your true destiny in life.

Stay inside your head long enough and you may get trapped there.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

I have the deepest respect for Eva Gabrielsson and all she has gone through, but I also know that I make maybe her sad, and I am sad about that, but I make so many other people happy.

Spread good energy. Pay it forward!

This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know?

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.

If Mitt Romney is vanilla, Chris Christie is three hefty scoops of Rocky Road topped with whipped cream, Red Bull, and gravel.

With more [distribution] channels, it's important to have 'must-have' content and brands that cut through the clutter.

I've never read one book about my father.