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

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.

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

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

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.

The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.

You want to be happy? you should first learn how to let it go

Honesty must sometimes be taken in small measure, like a bitter medicine.

Revelation is God's way of telling humanity that he is afraid of their possibility

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

But how can I get enough experience if they don't give me a chance to get experience?

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

I never talk about my personal life. After these rumours, I definitely do not want to comment on anything.

Skills can be taught. It's tough to teach heart. Talent is fairly common.

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.