To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Freedom is free will.

Don’t you ever let another put their hands on something that’s already yours, because you might end up breaking your own heart.

Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.

It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though.

The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one’s prospects.

I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.

My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write.

I'm very sorry if I offended anybody. I'd like to put it in the past now. What's done is done. I regret it.

The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.