What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

My night shall be remembered for a starThat outshone all the suns of all men's days

I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

If you want true love and a long-lasting marriage, you need to start by figuring out what makes you happy.

Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love - falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it.

You can have this kind of love. You can have it. You just grab it. Of course the problem with having that love is that you can lose it, too.

We normally consider stability to be the constant in life and accidents to be the exception, but it's exactly the opposite. In reality, the accident is the rule and stability is the exception.

Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes.

Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last.