I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.

I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought I would play as long as I did, either, seventeen years from start to finish, with stops in Houston, Minnesota, Seattle, and Kansas City.

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy we lose our humanity.

Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public bridges, higher tuitions at so-called public universities, higher admission fees at public parks and public museums.

I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably - small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

Don't ever write just for a trend or fad, because it's a moving target, and by the time you get your work out there, the trend or fad is gone. Dig deep; don't be afraid to write fiercely. Expose your heart.

Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.

I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, because if you compare what goes on in my stories to what goes on in popular movies and popular songs, it's very mild.

The height of your maturity and sagacity depends on your ability to see the beauty in ugly situations.

One thing I am sure of is that I won't judge a dance reality show.

My one guiding rule for success in the film world would be, be careful of your friends.

We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.

Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.

I set the time on my iPhone to be 30 minutes late, so I'm only an hour and a half late to appointments now.

We should have no regrets. ... The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.

Are you weary Catch your breath. Are you strong Reserve passing judgment on the tired.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.

Worship is the communitys cult in its purest most inward most subjective form a cult in which objectivity is as it were consumed and digested while the objective content now stripped of its objectivity has become a possession of mind and feeling.

The music and airlines businesses are tough, but I've been successful in them.

The crest and crowning of all good, life’s final star, is brotherhood.

I want to fly a jet. I'd love to just be in the air and go mach 3 or mach 4. Or, I'd be an underwater salvager. I've always been fascinated with the Bermuda Triangle and Atlantis. I love chemistry, also. That's why acting is so random for me!

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

A woman is like a tea bag only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.