Literature is the immortality of speech.

If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul.

And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd.

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let us down is because we believe those things and people shouldn't. Well, sorry, that's not life here on earth.

Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Days are scrolls: Write on them only what you want remembered.

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Making all future fruits of all the pasts.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.