The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

A habit does not a monk make.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

I find ambition really attractive too - if someone's good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

How do you tell a child that she was born to be hurt?

History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.

Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election