I suggest...that you develop early in life the habit of retiring and arising early. You remember the advice of Ben Franklin: "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.

Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination.

The best way to improve our lives is to improve our thoughts.

All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.

Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here and certainly not much promise is held out for them hereafter.

Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong.

Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought of in our day as a major virtue.

We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.

If I were asked to give the best idea of which I am capable, it would be that we should get out of the junk business and then start laying up treasures in heaven.

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.

I want to give you all of me. But will you want all of me when you realize I’m in pieces?

Everything changes, it all stays the same, Everyone guilty, no one to blame, Every way out, brings you back to the start, Everyone dies to break somebody's heart...

I'm not a boy band kind of girl. I like hip-hop, I like R&B.

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Tone can be as important as text.

Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

[Donald] Trump's views are objectionable, hateful, but they are not something I dreamt up in my own head.

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.