An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

True friendship is th treasure of forgiveness.

I kick kittens. I made rude gestures at nuns.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all disassociated.

Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.

He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

I am inclined to believe that if there can be a meaningful human right to any material thing, surely it starts with access to minimum clean freshwater.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission