I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Om is a living phenomenon and it has its own mood. Depending on its mood the meaning will be revealed to you.

I never get used to the response that people have toward me.

I wanna get a little drunk, but I also want some pancakes.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

A-PLUS Act - allow states to operate like charter schools.

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine... don't get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it's not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back.