Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

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'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!

I would cry if I could, but instead I just feel my heart rip apart.

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

Embrace nothing: If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet your father, kill your father. Only live your life as it is, Not bound to anything.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Experience comes from bad judgment.

Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone.

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate.