Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

All through school, people told me I looked like Marcia Brady.

If we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy.

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.

Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

How about a cheer for all those bad girls! And all those boys that play that rock 'n' roll! They love it like you love Jesus.

When you change a lead actor, everything's going to change - but you can rest assured he's going to absolutely smash it.

I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling