We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.

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.

In case you didn't know... You are her. The one he let get away.

How on earth did I get here, and where the hell are my pants?

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.

When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her.

I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.

What other people think is more important than what we feel.

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.