He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.

A free agent is anything but.

The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter."

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.

But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs.

He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Christianity is pre-eminently the religion of the heart. It does not always ask words, but it always wants work. The motives and not the means are the things on which it passes judgment. And the man who shows by his life that he is not ashamed of the Gospel will assuredly one day find that the Gospel is not ashamed of him. There is much more which might be said, but I refrain. Ere I close, you will let me add my emphasis to the fact that it is in our life and conduct that we must show our devotion to Christ. The silent Gospel reaches further than the grandest rhetoric.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time.

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

From thy own smile I snatched the snake.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

By the quality of our inner lives I do not mean something characterized by ferocious intensity and strain. I mean rather such a humble and genial devotedness as we find in the most loving of the saints. I mean the quality which makes contagious Christians, makes people catch the love of God from you.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.