Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.

Wickedness may prosper for a while.

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.

All of Dad's relationships ended exactly the same: subpoena, beep of a moving van backing up the driveway, pile of his clothes burning on the front lawn.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.

Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words.

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life.

Put your shoulders back, hold your head up high knowing that the same power that raised Christ from the dead lives on the inside of you.

If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts.