Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.
I have a great family. I can call them and they don't want to talk just football They want to find out how my day went outside of football.
As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.
I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I was looking for more co-op type things than what I had been doing, which had been completely my own trip.