And hold up to the sun my little taper.

Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

A wise person has something to say, a fool has to say something.

when in Rome, do as the Romans do.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. . Sandra Carey.

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

Where will you be sitting in eternity--smoking or non-smoking?

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.

We must all die! All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when, Nor how, so we die well; and can that man that does so Need lamentation for him?

Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man-- Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan! Born the free heir of nature's wide domain, To art's strict limits bounds his narrow'd reign; Resigns his native rights for meaner things, For Faith and Fetters, Laws and Priests and Kings.

Behind every successful man lurks a truly amazed ex-mother-in-law.

Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth. - To Neil Armstrong after he landed successfully on the Moon.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.