Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.

Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias.

The audience, that's who I care about.

Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe

The Patriots deflated balls are but an allegory for America's deflated balls in dealings with Putin, the Mullahs in Iran, and Islamic terrorists.

We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't!

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

We can't completely rely on the aberrations of history to explain today's European necessities. Future-related issues are no less pressing.

I adore Quentin Tarantino. The Kill Bill series is my favorite.

Tehran believes it's none of our business or anybody else's to decide the future of personalities in other countries.