Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Where there is society there is no need for charity.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

They say you can take someone who was born in Africa out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of someone born there....

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe!

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.

I watch every reality show out there.

All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.