The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

I never gave him a chance to decide if I was worth loving. I'd taken that choice away from him - because I feared what it would be.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Don't live beyond your means. Don't buy more than you can pay for. Don't expect to get rich quick. And don't confuse salesmen for friends or advisers.

But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.

I have never lost a total passion for my work.

Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.

I have lived my whole life with high intensity.

It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.

The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.