Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

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.

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

Men want to be known and loved for who they are by women.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

A healthy PFC means a healthy cognitive grip over the world with very little elements of prejudice.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie; Home's a long, long way from us. I feel a dirty wind blowing; Devils and dust.

When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key.

We are all connected in love.

There are always a lot of leading questions and opinions. Of course, our work is creative, and it's subjective.