Take in the ideas of the day drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

We do not teach history

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

I feel lucky that I even have the luxury to write about feeling lonely or feeling confused. When you think about climate change that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.

I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.

To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.

Remember my strong advice; just remember to always think twice.

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.