We often despise what is most useful to us.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door

His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.

You only live once, right?""Not true, " Quinn said, "you live every day. You only die once.

Most people with new ideas are ridiculed … until they succeed!

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.

Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.

I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging.

I have never understood the saying 'To think outside the box.' Why would anyone sit inside of a box and then think outside of it. Rather just get out of the box.

Jonathan Edwards developed a Calvinistic strand of the doctrine.