Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

There is no longer waiting for anyone, but for death.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.

People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

If you know anything about me - and, if you do, I'm sorry that your life turned out like that.

Direct mail - it falls out of every magazine you open these days

The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.