If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

It's not about quoting somebody else's words - Its about creating yourself!

Maybe to have a memory you need time for reflection, however brief, just to let the memory find a place to settle.

God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.

I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

You know, Roland and I were just talking about how we don't have any pyromaniac friends. And everyone knows you need a good pyro to pull off any reform school prank worth the effort.

I probably have reported, probably more about the unusual animal death stories then anyone else on this planet.

To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives.

In an odd way (the death of John Daly) is cheering news!

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.