He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

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.

Emails are viewed as an essential historical record of an organization. A record that cannot be expunged must be created with care or not created at all.

In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible.

He would have given anything for a tension-breaker-maybe, if he prayed hard enough, the school would catch on fire or something.

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

Internal democracy in schools is as important in order to ensure the true democratization of education.

A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you're going and that's all you need.

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...

I'm interested in how people shoot because I have a very specific way of shooting and I'm fascinated by the way other people shoot films, particularly if they're smart and talented.