True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

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.

One Lifetime is not enough.

I was desperate to discover what nothing felt like. It was the absence of something that attracted me. It was the start. Everything important originated with nothingness.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.

I believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them.

In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.

Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because a kata begins to the left that the opponent is attacking from the left.

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.

That's when you know you're a true married couple: when you have to apologize for what you did in her dream.