It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.

She [Marilyn Monroe] wasn't the most incredibly beautiful. She's rather ordinary. Cute, but no Rita Hayworth. I think she was ready for the camera, and it was a real destiny for her.

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.

When you're a brown Muslim from Iran talking about Jesus on TV, you need to keep your cool at all times, OK? That's not rocket science.

Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.

I go to bed at 4 a. m. Almost all chessplayers do.

The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.