Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

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.

An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

In any organization men would move up form the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.

It is wonderful when God saves a drunkard which He sometimes does, but it is more wonderful still when God saves little children before they become drunkards, libertines, and degenerates.

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

My credit card company says I have an outstanding balance. I'm flattered.

I was always the guy - out of insecurities, I was always making fun, even as a kid.

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

The world may not be getting better and better, but our devices are getting newer and newer.

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.