Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.

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.

You are the Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen clean, clear and perfect.

He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy."

What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.

The truth is, I've made about 30 movies in 30 years, and I've been criticized for 30 years for not making more movies.

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

I think everyone still thinks I'm 13.

If you should ever acknowledge my existence, I plan to snub you.

You can basically change everything in a startup but the market.