The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.

In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than any other to give an idea of chemistry.

God knows what happens to your time once you have begun to get old. You are busy all the time, you do important things, you work, and yet when you sum it all up the result is nothing.

He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood.'That's where everything starts', he'd say. 'Both heaven and hell.

We are not the only ones affected by our recovery. The spiritual awakening heals the world one person at a time.

If he’s not he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets—

Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone's life in a very positive way are better.

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

Reason dies collapsing under its own load.

Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect.

Esteem never makes ingrates.

As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated.

If people wake up and go, "Oh, where's the coffee," or "Oh, another day," that does not set a good tone for the day.