"Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed."

"We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing."

"I don't want the demons taken away because they're going to take my angels too."

"Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway."

"Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them."

"If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun."

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."

"What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something."

"The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered."

"If age imparted wisdom, there wouldn't be any old fools."