It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

I like curiosity. It's a mind game, not a necessity.

The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations!

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves For a bright manhood there is no such word As fail.

And trade is art, and art's philosophy, In Paris.

A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.

The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.

If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.

Saying "I feel guilty" is a mere form of words. Saying "I feel ashamed" is not.

What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.

I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.