A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

Life ain't all beer and skittles.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.

It is my mood which decides the weather, it is my mood which brings the tiny changes to humankind.

God has specific plans and intentions for every man

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Resist. Unlearn. Defy.

Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'

My hat is in the ring.

Inspiration is nothing without work.