A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

When an impressive level skill is accompanied with consistent action on the right plan, success becomes the only possible destination.

Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.

What an astonishing thing a book is.

I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?

People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.

We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.

I was alive, they were not. Go Me. (Touch the Dark)

Whatever your mind feeds upon your mind attracts to you.

I have a huge crush on Josh Hutcherson and all the guys in One Direction!

I've come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas.