Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

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.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one.

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

The act of accumulating knowledge about the transcendent concepts and the ability to actually experience the inner essence that these concepts signify are two very different things.

Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine’s Day.

I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.

When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.

The last few months of George Bush's presidency brought Obama and nobody can be happy about that.

A little understanding of "As you sow, so shall you reap" is important, because then you can't blame the condition you're in on anyone else.

Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.

We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.