The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
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.
It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.
You have to be ready to give everything you have, and you have to make sure you've really got a lot to give. Because if. . . you're not ready to give everything you have,. . . then you're nothin'.
They're gonna keep knocking away until all this comes crashing down. But I'm not gonna ever crash. I'm in control.
You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job. . . the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.