You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

Life is now in session. Are you present?

The supernatural does not exist.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

Power is emotionless; yet one with personal power will experience more emotions.

Enthusiasm, like the breath of God, transforms everything.

If you want to find guys with small penises, go to the Hummer dealership.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.