Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
