There is a variety in tempers of good men.

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping.

It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.

I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy -- dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon.

Don't worry about the masses. That's how you make a memorable moment.

I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.

I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

When I say the word You, I mean a hundred universes.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

When you're more focused in getting your message across than you are worrying about how people are viewing you, that's huge.