There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

The real youis much too big to be your own.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

Like any tool [drugs] can help you or hurt you.

Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw

I want to thank Jesus, and by Jesus I mean Jesus Hernandez, my bodyguard

Those who realize that life is for growing and developing from each and every challenge, each day of our lives, live a life of joy!!!