“I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.”

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

One may be humble out of pride.

My trade and art is to live.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

He comes to play, prepares himself real well. We need him to play the way he does.

Ian MacKaye was in London while I was living there. We both decided that even though we had very different lifestyles.

And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’

It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.

I’m not who you think I am, I had said to T.J. the last time I’d seen him. Maybe I wasn’t who I’d thought I was either.

He’s smaller than me, did you see him? He looked like a noodle next to me.

You don’t make Him Lord. He’s Lord already. You just recognize it.

What Jesus will do with you is determined on what you will do with him.