I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Mahfouz.

I am on a thirty day diet.So far, I have lost 15 days.

A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moists the field.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.

Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge.

And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

A friend is someone who thinks you're a good egg even though you're slightly cracked.

My heart is feminine, nor can forget-- To all, except one image, madly blind; So shakes the needle, and so stands the pole, As vibrates my fond heart to my fix'd soul.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Now this is the ground and original of the Spirit of Love in the creature, it is and must be a will to all goodness; and you have not the Spirit of Love in you till you have this will to all goodness at all times and on all occasions. You may indeed do many works of love and delight in them -- especially at such times as they are not inconvenient to your state or temper or occurrences in life. But the Spirit of Love is not in you till it is the spirit of your life, till you live freely, willingly, and universally according to it.