It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

When we will learn to seeThere is no you and me but only weThen in this world peace will be.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

In difficult times, in dark times, some people shine.

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

I would hope that Kanye [West] would be remembered for being smart and sticking to what he believes.

You have to pick what you're going to be worried about. Markets are volatile, but retirement is certain.

To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.

You only get so many firsts, each one is a blessing.