The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

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.

I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.

Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth.

We are not going to be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy.

I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.

The Saviour would have passed through the agony of Calvary that one might be saved in His kingdom. He will never abandon one for whom He has died.

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible

Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won't get the part, but if you don't go, you'll never know if you could've got it.

Ask yourself: Does the job touch my heart and feed my soul? You will never be what you were meant to be if you aren't having fun.

You can't explain the unknown in terms of the incomprehensible.