There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often form our best experience.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.

When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

Jesus Christ is Lord of all, and all things have been put under his feet. There are no exceptions. (p. 70)

My traumatic experience was life changing

Easter is an arts and crafts moment where your whole family and friends can get involved.

I think something very simple that everybody can do is they can participate in medical research as subjects. Personal genome project, for example, will take on as many subjects as we can find.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart."

The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.