"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."

"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow."

"It is a timeless truth that life is an unwritten ledger; each passing sunrise offers a clean and waiting page."

"Patience is a virtue because the bonds of friendship are the true treasures of existence."

"The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail."

"All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent."

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."