Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston.

To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player.

Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired.

I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.

One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.

The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.

It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.