The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

Life ain't all beer and skittles.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness.

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.

Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.

It's not the failures in our life that define us, it's the moments when we decide that getting back up is all that matters

Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.

Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision.

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.