As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

We must love those close to us, all the time, every day. Moments only happen once. Make them matter.

happy to see me and unhappy to see me at the same time

Well, dude, ” said Khalil, “sometimes you just have to get over shit.

It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.

I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.

Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.

That is the freakiest thing that ever happened to me.” I nodded toward the mess. “And if you knew my life, you’d realize just how freaky that is.

If I wear bright colors or something, I'll tie all my hair back. I don't want to look too like 'Girls Next Door.'

It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.