we can't know a road until we travel it. Hearing about it is not enough. We are obliged to travel over it.

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners.

I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind.

We do not earn or deserve the love of God; we already have it.

It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime.

Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.

If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!

There are pieces of me on the ground.

We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.

As a kid, you await holidays with a wide-eyed, passionate, almost maniacal enthusiasm. Heavy breathing is involved.

A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

If these two couldn't divorce why on earth would we expect them to get married?

Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.

That most people will not accept the fact that you are - and who was it that said that eventually Donald Trump is going to go on television and insists he never ran for president?