Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.