To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.

Time, the devourer of all things.

I knew after 'Sarah Marshall' that my favorite genre is romantic comedy. Nothing is more satisfying than a great romantic comedy.

I guess the kid had everything but the luck.

Don't tell anyone. I'm supposed to be dumb.

I think what the president [Barack Obama] understands, and what he's trying to do, is that we have to support the Arab and Kurdish fighters on the ground who are actually doing the fighting.

O God, split the heavens and come down! Manifest yourself somehow. Do what only you can do.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

The people who pay the biggest price are those who are struggling.