Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

Enjoy the contented silence.

There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent.

All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

It was all right until the sun came out and then everything started getting warmer.

Be a victor , not a victim.

Don’t stand up when you can sit down and don’t sit down when you can lie down.

I only wanna go up the steps toward a different level of stardom. The BET Awards was one of those steps, the VMAs was another huge step. And the next step, eventually, hopefully, would be the Oscars.

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

Let us realize that we are sinners and have much to explate, while others less culpable than we are suffer more than we do.