When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

Believe in God.

Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

I don't break the rules, I simply bend them in my favor.

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

It is a word that's quickly spoken, which being unrestrained, a heart is broken

I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly.

When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.

Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.