It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.

Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.

A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.

I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.

Kenny G has a Christmas album out this year. Hey, happy birthday Jesus! Hope you like crap!

My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died.

Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.