Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets.

Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

Fear is the white lipp'd sire Of subterfuge and treachery.

The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.

Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.

There are just traces of me and not a shadow left…Without the traces of your iridescence to make my silhouette.

Your words were music to me tonight, but you weren't mine to listen to.

Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.

It was interesting to have humanoid villains that were rooted in our three-dimensional reality... or four dimensional reality, I'm not sure which!

I really wanted to focus on my songwriting, or songwriting with other people. I wanted to go learn from other people who were really good at the classic, more traditional idea of songwriting.

I mean the Internet is like the luckiest thing - we have everything at our fingertips right now.

The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.

I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

It's easy to stand back, but to move forward and take a chance, that takes a little more guts, a little more courage.