A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is

Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.

Every man has an atmosphere which is affecting every other.

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

Worry is forethought gone to seed.

Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.

Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.

Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.

Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.

We carry our house plants from one window to another to give them the proper heat, light, and moisture. Should we not be at least as careful of ourselves?

It's all right if things don't change today. We're gonna keep doing what we do. The world can either catch up or not.

I am always in the gym sparring. I look at every fight kind of like a sparring match.

The groom is like a flower of gold. When he walks, blossoms at his feet unfold.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with. -Jeremy Malory-

If I were running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for a victory not only for Obama but also for the Democrats.

The only thing we have is each other.

I hadn't seen my dad get violent since the Great Spatula Incident, and I wasn't anxious to see a repeat of that.

One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

School doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.