Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

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.

You are always a gardener. What grow - and how it grows - is up to you.

... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...

To line only for some unknown future is superficial.

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded.

Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure it won't be a $200 million movie.

But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?