Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.

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.

Whatever it is I'm born to do, my fear of failing at it has almost become greater than my desire to figure out what it is.

You have survived so muchthat no one remembers.And you still spread warmrain on all your overgrownlots. And you still get dressedin the morning. You stillopen wide for the sun.

On the edge of timelessness, hand in hand with you, a sea of flowers caressed.

Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

I don't think every joke has to be so dadgum cerebral. I mix it up really good, because that's the kind of humor I like. I like the goofy one-liner type stuff.

Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

I use people's real voices because I want realism. So often I mention the actors' physicality because I want it to be like a real documentary.

Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.