But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

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.

Don’t give up on the love of your life.

The grateful heart sits at a continuous feast.

I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

Garry Hill is a pleasure to be around, and his work is a rewarding reflection of my career.

Our seeing is sexual initially.

There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.

To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.

Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics.

God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!