Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Be that self which one truly is.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.