The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

When people give me a compliment, I just look back and smile, as I am just a glimpse of both my father's. Both earthly and heavenly.

To the extent we push meat a little bit to the side and move vegetables to the center of our diet, we're also going to be a lot healthier.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

If you're not getting better in the summer, you're wasting your time.

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be successful, and really it's the wrong thing. It's not a profession.

Think Big! Expand your thinking first and your situation will soon follow.

Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.

When they say America is the land of opportunity, it's true. If you work hard, people appreciate you.