Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.

Well done is better than well said.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

You can do anything you set your mind to.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

Learn how to love a broke man to marry a good man.

And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard to survive.

An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

The best way of learning about anything is by doing.

How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.