Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

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.

As soon as you successful, people will get jealous and become your enemy

When focus increases, options decrease.

No, I've never played baseball in my life.

If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat.

Open yourself to the changes; you can then create many different beauties like the skies do!

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.