Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

I think that you're always going to have some people who are negative or view you in a certain way.

When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it .

I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there.

The problem of empathy is pretty universal, and pretty much breaks down across America. People can't feel beyond their drawn borders. And skin color and culture have a lot to do with that.

Oh I get it...You're looking for the quickest way to the hospital, huh? ~Train Heartnet

Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.

It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids.

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

If you’re constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.