The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.

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.

If we aren't trustworthy to our own words and values, why should we expect others to trust us with their resources, let alone with their lives?

Dogs come when they're called

He's one of the biggest whingers in world football... he's a bloody eejit.

The only thing you want is to come back alive.

Our silence is deafening and deadly.

For anyone having a bad day just remember 'If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way.

In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.