“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

Bad men are full of repentance.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

It’s a magical way to spend a summer – privacy at sea, and fun and friends in port.

Why can’t I be friends with somebody who’s gay? Why not? You can miss out on a lot by being so small-minded and stereotypical about people. It’s stupid.

I never had a lot of friends growing up so having this insane amount of love and support really means a lot to me.

Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.

All people have is hope. That’s what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring. A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family.

What people don’t understand is joining a gang ain’t bad, it’s cool, it’s fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it’s cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family’s in the gang. We’re not just killing people every night, we’re just hanging out, having a good time.

My friend, let’s not think of tomorrow, but let’s enjoy this fleeting moment of life.

We are like atoms dancing with each other, sometimes meeting each other, sometimes separating from each other.