It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

The walls in my room know your name. They heard me sigh your name last night!

Nightmares appear many times before your dream.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

Talking of white supremacist violent types, I was in America, recently.

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.

My attitude of love must not be sacrificed on the altar of activity.

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.