Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

A brave mind is always impregnable.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Without discretion people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection and choked with too much nourishment.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.

The great esteem in which the Nobel prizes are universally held is due to the fact that for several generations they have been given purely on scientific merit and not through lobbying and politicking. I do hope that it will stay this way, and the prizes will never be given according to the number of votes in live TV contests!

The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

We hide our demons so good that the angels we show bare the shame on their faces.

I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.

I tell a lot of fart and poop jokes. I can't help it. I have no filter, and it just comes out.

All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.

The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.

I love kids, but I have to be honest: I am that person at a dinner party who's a little relieved when the kids go to bed.

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

I'm not trying to be a girl by putting on a dress - gender is separated by fabric.

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

I hate alarms. If they go off I get really tetchy. I hate them. They just get me going, I'm hyper at the best of times, but they drive me mad.

I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.

I cannot take away the fact I am a small-town boy from India, from a lower-middle class family, and was actually standing in front of De Niro - not on an equal level, but as an actor, on the same pedestal.

I was brought up in a flat in North London - virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles.

A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America.

It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.