Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

The best thing about books is that you don’t need passwords to open them and a battery to read them.

Landslides, cloudbursts, and what not—the hill folks have to contend with more than their share of woes.

Truth is the greatest casualty of compromised media.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. 

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. 

Pleasure is a physical experience.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

What we think, we become.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

 A country's greatness, sacrifice and love depend on the values of the country that it holds.