Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

One day u will be the message...a message for those who still alive...

A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their society has the same problem as a town with many intellectuals and yet with many problems

Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others

I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.

Chaos is the penance for leisure.

I learned that I have to work hard every day, that I can't get down if I get in a slump.

You never know how great a kiss can feel, when you're stopped at the top of a Ferris wheel.

To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.

I do believe in sexual monogamy.

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.