A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Waiting makes wine better

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards.

The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?

Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible. She's not dead. Not this time.

If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.

"Legally Blonde 2" wasn't written specifically for a black woman.

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

Food is culture, and we need to listen to it.