Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.

I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.

The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.

[Filming Payne] that was also the first time I worked with JoBeth Williams, which was also a case of not being the last time!

The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.

I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.

There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.

I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door.