Can you buy friendship? You not only can, you must. It's the only way to obtain friends. Everything worthwhile has a price.

If you want to become good at something, do it as often as possible. If you want to become an expert at it, do it every day.

The cost of procrastination is generally far greater than the cost of making mistakes.

You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.

Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems.

It’s not stress that kills people, but how they react to it.

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be nor the way they appear to be but the way they actually are.

The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

Some things are worth the wait. A little suspense heightens the pleasure.

The young princess was as beautiful as daylight. She was more beautiful even than the queen herself

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.

Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it.