We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.

There is appointed time for every sacred event under the sun.

Slavery is impossible without the consent of the slave. Fear imprisons the mind, Faith. You either accept this prison by following the rules made by others. Or you break free, by making your own.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

In the land of God's and Monsters, I was an angel looking to get f-ked hard.

Why is it that all cars are women? Because they're fussy and demanding.

We don't know our own story.

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.