You never know what you can do till you try.

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

You never know what you can do till you try.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

Please your eye and plague your heart.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.

Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version.

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

If people want to find things, they find them themselves.

I grew up loving X-Men, Spider-Man and Batman.

I first started acting in primary school, just doing little plays. And from the moment I began, something just went 'click' inside me. Suddenly I wasn't shy anymore. Instead I felt confident and happy. I can remember the enormous sense of relief it gave me. I loved the feeling of making people laugh.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

I believe that when the going gets tough, you should just hit pause. Assimilate what is happening for 10 minutes. Your thoughts will be much clearer.

Your children can be around you all day but if you dont spend quality time with them and you dont pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them it doesnt matter that theyre just around you.

I feel I have so much more to deliver than music.

I certainly support civil unions.

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism one looks in such a way at the model that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.

I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.

Knowing isn't always believing.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

You reap what you sow Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.

When it comes to my career and investing into myself, I'm going to be very particular and meticulous about how I'm doing things so that I can reach the level of success that I want. I'm also going to take some chances, because who better for me to invest in than myself?

As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.

When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.