Without awareness, we are not truly alive.
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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.
Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.
I'm going back!" I shouted, standing to put some distance between us in case I was yanking her chain too hard and she came after me. "I'll show him," I said, waving an arm. "I'll sneak in. I'll steal his freaking glasses and mail them back to him in a freaking birthday card!
Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.
Many have forgotten what we came here for, Never knew or had a clue, so you're on the floor. Just growin' not known' about your past. . . Now you're lookin' pretty stupid while you're shakin' your ass.