Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.

You never know what you can do till you try.

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.

If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.

Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child.

The principle was right there-you couldn't miss it. The more you did for your customers the more they did for us.

Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, blacks review blacks, etc.

A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.

When we love the stars light up, the wrong becomes undone. Naturally, my soul surrenders.

And check this out: If every American had one meat-free day per week, it would be the same as taking eight million cars off American roads in a year.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.

You are a son to me, that to my father I couldn't be. I love you.