To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Don't give up when dark times come. The more storms you face in life, the stronger you'll be. Hold on. Your greater is coming.

The century's getting old and stale

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

The hardest thing is to give up something you love, for the sake of Allah. But remember Allah never takes without giving something better.

It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.

One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God.