The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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.

1I smiled bitterly, a defeated man pitifully begging a God in whom he had never trusted.

The Abrahamic God is a disease masquerading as its own remedy which we desperately need to cure.

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.

Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day.

I'm very uncomfortable about the way I look but confident as a man.

A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.