We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.

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.

How much your life sucks, or how awesome your life is, is really all determined by how much fear controls your life.

When my children hear godliness out of my mouth and they see wickedness in my life, then I point them to heaven and I lead them to hell.

Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.

The only difference between a winner and a loser is a winner plays until he wins

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking.

Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!

There is nothing worse than bad drunk acting.

Who has told you that the fruit belies the flower? For the fruit you have not tasted, and the flower you know but by report.

Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?