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

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.

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.

A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.

Never look too far to find a family. Your neighbour is your closest family.

A lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.

Heartbreak, death and loss were shared between us, but renewal, commitment and strength as well.

To suffer for the faith is not a penalty

After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.

Know this, if someone has cheated on you who truly loves you, they have hurt themselves as much as they have hurt you.

I'd learned a thing or two. Hope strengthens. Fear kills.

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.

When the Queen says 'well done,' it means so much.