The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men's company, can only be acquired in women's.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Time spent in assessing one's self, is the time spent best.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5, 000 years.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

My life and my legs have been an open book.

If the North wanted to hack anything in the world, anything in the world, really, they are going to go hack a movie? Really?!

There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

I remember when I was shot down in that war. I remember how terrified I was. And it made me feel close to my family, and to God, and to life, and I was scared.

I gave my wife a gift certificate for Christmas. She ran out to exchange it for a bigger size.