Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

The message was, the choices you make can have bad consequences. Everyone has the power of choice. Just like this kid had the power of choice to steal my car.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.

A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.