Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there.

There are three billion women who don't look like super models and ONLY eight who do.

She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

I like work; It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. Spech in March 1976.

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection.

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

The sad and solemn night Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires; The glorious host of light Walk the dark hemisphere till she retires; All through her silent watches, gliding slow, Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up, depends upon what you're made of.

Creation of woman from the rib of Man: She was not made from his head to top him; nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him; but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what has worked with what sounded good. In area after area- crime, education, housing, race relations- the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet .

Liberty is the right to do as the law permits.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Peace originates with the flow of things — its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The Way is like the veins that circulate blood through our bodies, following the natural flow of the life force. If you are separated in the slightest from that divine essence, you are far off the path.