The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock.

Scottish Proverb

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Joseph Addison

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

Kerry Washington

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

Epictetus

I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.

Tim Scott

Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.

Ricky Williams

Let no man value at a little price a virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit is feathered often times with heavenly words, and, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.

Chapman

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Jeremy Bentham

You can only rule over a subject race, especially when you are in a small minority, if you honestly believe yourself to be racially superior, and it helps towards this if you can believe that the subject race is biologically different.

George Orwell

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Margaret Halsey