Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being

Whatever you have not strived hard to achieve will not strive hard to fade. Success built on hard work is the kind that lasts longer.

Fun is never gone because life is fun.

When people praise you, don't let it go to your head. When they criticize you, don't let it go to your heart.

Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

God cannot do for us what he cannot do through us.

innocence is the hardest thing to prove.

Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere