Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Jests that give pains are not jests.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.