A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.

Well done is better than well said.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

You can do anything you set your mind to.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

I have given my word that only death will take me from you.

Can I finish my blasted story? We'll get to supernatural kindergarten later.

True prayer brings a person's will into accordance with God's will not the other way around.

I like stories that grow, that have unpredictable layers. As opposed to Hollywood movies that start out with a lot of shock and noise and peter out into an unconvincing cliche.

As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.

I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.