Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Happiness is a form of courage.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Originality is only variation.

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.

Slacker becomes slower if given additional time.

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

Children like yourselves are full of magic, but the men have turned, they've lost their magic to the fear and hatred they harbor for all that they can't explain, control, or understand.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

We are so fond of hearing ourselves spoken of, that, be it good or ill, it is still pleasing.

Jesus washes the feet of the Apostles. Are we ready to serve others like this.

I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.

I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl