The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Common sense is not so common.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.