Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.

If the NRA keeps messing with the President's daughters, they're going to have to start worrying about Michelle Obama's guns.

Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

Be like snow - cold, but beautiful.

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

When you look back, history is not going to be kind to these last 16 years from 2000 to 2016.

It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?