If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.

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.

Our goal is to reflect the Kingdom of God

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.

Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.

I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.

I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

If you do something and it saves your life, it was good taijutsu. In a real fight, you aren't worried about what's pretty.

Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love.

The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou possessed it, but thou wert weary of its presence.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.