When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

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.

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts and actions--what will you reflect?

Love and pride will never dwell together, never ! Do not fool yourself, God and the devil will never share the same space. Therefore, drop your pride and experience love.

Make sure the job you select complements your personal life the best.

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

I'm nervous whenever I perform.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I do believe you can be attracted by somebody at first sight. We have all done it.

All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.

Let's recognize that, the Houthi rebels in Yemen are fully subsidized by Iran.

History says that I'm one of the best pound-for-pound, and I won't stop until I'm number one.