Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

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.

It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.

Sometimes I think it's so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they're 28?

Love will heal What language fails to know

Tremendous happiness and peace of mind are the results of loving service to others. Nobody can live fully and happily who lives only unto himself or herself.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

You know me... I can't resist a good prank.

If you are an adult, and you are planning to dress up on Halloween... don't. I will find you. I will hurt you.

There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.

With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.