Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.

In the beginning Man created God and in the image of Man created he him.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.

Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

A second ago is gone, and a second from now might be. Now is all you've got. Go for it!

I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog.

Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

You risked the cub? (Dev) He’s not just a cub. (Aimee) You’re right. He’s the passenger who fell off the short bus. (Dev)